2001
Cairn
Christel Sniter, « War of Statues. The Public Statue and Symbolic Violence: The Example of Statues of Joan of Arc in Paris between 1870 and 1914 », Sociétés & Représentations, ID : 10670/1.f82ca0...
Public statuesque is a symbolic stake of power, a screen on which political and social tensions are projected. The study of the statues of Joan of Arc erected in Paris between 1870 and 1914, a period of statue-mania, is a clear example of it. While everything tended to make Joan of Arc a figure of consensus, her statues, on the contrary, were the object of symbolic, even physical violence, carried away by ideological conflicts. Another dimension is also revealed: the ability of women to project and identify themselves to the figure of Joan of Arc.