600 French Words You'll Use Every Day - Basic Vocabulary #100

Join European Paintings curator Alison Hokanson as she dives into this monumental "Joan of Arc" painting. On this day, French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage was born. Though he lived only 36 years, he made a large impact on the French art world of the second half of the 19th century. Like Joan of Arc, he was a product of a poor family from the rural province of Lorraine in the northeast of France. The subject of Joan of Arc had been popular throughout the 19th century, but the Franco-Prussian War o