Where did Joan of Arc grow up and live?

📍2 Rue de la Basilique, 88630 Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Vosges, France

1412 – 1431

“I was born in Domremy, a small village on the Meuse river in the duchy of Bar, in a stone farmhouse that still stands. I grew up spinning wool and tending cattle, a girl of the fields and forests, and it was in those fields that I first heard the voices of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, telling me I must drive the English from France and see the Dauphin crowned at Reims. I left Domremy at seventeen and never truly came home. Within two years I had rallied the French army, lifted the siege of Orleans, and stood at the side of Charles VII as he was crowned king. Then I was captured, sold to the English, and burned at Rouen. I was nineteen years old.”

👍 LovedThe deep peace of village life in Domremy — the rhythms of farming, the community of neighbours, the river and the forests that formed the boundaries of my childhood world.

👎 DislikedLeaving it all behind at seventeen, knowing I would probably not return. The loneliness of being a young woman trying to be heard by old men who controlled armies.

Map showing where Joan of Arc lived — 2 Rue de la Basilique, 88630 Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Vosges, France

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Joan of Arc's home at 2 Rue de la Basilique, 88630 Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Vosges, France

📍 Street view today

Sources: Pernoud, R. Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses (1962), Stein & Day; Gordon, M. Joan of Arc (2000), Penguin Lives; The Trial of Joan of Arc (1431, translated W.P. Barrett 1932)