Author Topic: Joan of Arc statue in French Quarter tagged with 'Tear It Down' graffiti (Read 664 times)

ClarkSmith · « **on:** May 15, 2017, 01:49:37 PM »

Joan of Arc statue in French Quarter tagged with 'Tear It Down' graffiti

The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining.

The "Tear it Down" tag would seem to relate to the debate surrounding the city's ongoing removal of four Confederate monuments. But the statue of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint, hasn't been mentioned in the controversy to this point.

Amy Kirk Duvoisin, the founder of the annual Joan of Arc parade that ceremonially pauses at the statue on the first day of Carnival season, says she's confused by the vandalism.

"Surely, people realize she's not related to American history," she said referring to the French icon.

If there's a bright side to the incident, Duvoisin said, it's that it's "an opportunity to teach about" the teenage warrior who was burned at the stake in 1431.

According to plaques accompanying the statue, the sculpture of Joan of Arc, who is also known as the Maid of Orleans, was "a gift of the people of France to the citizens of New Orleans" in 1972.

On May 1 in Paris, the controversial former right-wing Nationalist Front Party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, known for his restrictive views on French immigration, led a rally at a duplicate golden statue of Joan of Arc in Paris.

The Monumental Task Committee, an organization that describes itself as being devoted to "preserving, restoring and protecting monuments," is soliciting for donations through its website to restore the Joan of Arc statue.

There is no connection between the "Tear It Down" tag and the the Take Em Down NOLA organization, one of its leaders said. TED NOLA been most vocal among the opponents of the Confederate monuments as well as local school names, venues, streets and other statues honoring figures with ties to slavery. Malcolm Suber said TED members had nothing to do with the graffiti.
"Joan of Arc is not on our radar," Suber said.

AMDGJMJ · « **Reply #1 on:** May 16, 2017, 07:33:28 AM »

My family and I visited the location in France where Saint Joan was burnt at the stake several years ago...

I had expected a big shrine along with lots of directions and signs telling you how to get there...

But, no... We could hardly find it, and then it was barely labeled...

So sad! :-[

She is my patron saint, so this tears at my heart so much!

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 26, 2017, 11:00:48 AM »

These communists are going after everything European and every thing to do with White Civilization.

The "Deep State" and the likes like the billionaire George Soros are behind these events support them through
recruiting the most vile of leftists with their financing and with some coming through in tax paying dollars.

cassini · « **Reply #3 on:** May 26, 2017, 11:54:41 AM »

Attacks on Joan of Arc have been going on for centuries. Why even Shakespeare was at it many years ago:

From our own studies we believe Shakespeare himself gives the game away when he acts totally out of character by his vicious attack on the integrity of (St) Joan of Arc in his play Henry VI, treating the English as having ‘God as our fortress’ and the French as being one with the ‘witches and the help of hell’ (Act.II, Sc.1) and ‘Devil, or devil's dam’ (1:5). ‘In 1576 Queen Elizabeth packed the young Francis Bacon up and personally shipped him off to France. She wanted him to spy on foreign governments and officials in the same capacity as John Dee.’[1] The likes of Bacon would be very well aware that Joan la Puchelle was used by God in this war of Principalities and Powers. Consequently, whereas he was a man able to engage and parry as equal with anyone from King to the most lowly wretch, all of whom are manifested in the writings of Shakespeare, he could not contain himself when making reference to a superior on the Melchisedech field of combat, the soldier of Christ, Joan of Arc, now a saint, whom Diana Vaughan was pleased to invoke in her conflict against her former colleagues in proto-Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ.

‘In the first part of Henry the Sixth Jeanne d’Arc addresses the Duke of Burgundy in a speech of thirty-three lines. This speech is an absolutely faithful version of a letter in France written by the Maid of Orleans to the then Duke of Burgundy and dated July 17^th, 1429. There is no historical authority for this letter which never saw the light of print till discovered by the Historian of the house of Burgundy in 1780. Bacon in his travels [in France] might easily have seen this letter: in fact the author of this play must have done so. [William Shaksper] was never within miles of it.’[2]

[1] Richard Allan Wagner: The Truth about Freemasons, 2015.

[2] Walter Ellis’s The Shakespeare Myth, Bacon Society, 1937.

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