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# A Sword Stolen from the Statue of Joan of Arc in Front of the Church of Saint-Augustin in Paris
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-parizhe-u-statui-zhanny-dark-pered-tserkoviu-sviatogo-avgustina-ukrali-mech/
- Published: 2026-01-03T19:48:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:28.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Heritage, Paris

The shocking act of vandalism went roughly as follows: a man climbed onto the sculpture of Joan of Arc and damaged the statue of France's national heroine by snapping off the blade of her sword, after which he tried to make off with it. He was detained nearby, close to the Saint-Lazare railway station, and his motives are being established.

This is one of the three principal statues of Joan of Arc in Paris, created in 1895 by the sculptor Paul Dubois. Several more casts were made from his model and installed elsewhere. The second, probably the best known, is the equestrian statue in gilded bronze in the Place des Pyramides, erected in 1874, the work of Emmanuel Frémiet. The third is a standing figure on the Boulevard Saint-Marcel. Among other well-known sculptural depictions of the saint are her marble statue by Charles Desvergnes of 1921 in Notre-Dame de Paris, a standing figure in the church of Saint-Eustache, and an equestrian figure beside the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur.

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