Église Saint-Rémy de Domrémy

Domrémy-la-Pucelle

Domrémy is not a parish: the mother church is at Greux, a kilometre to the north, and the diocese is that of Toul. Saint-Rémy is nonetheless the village church, built in the 13th century, and it was there that the daughter of Jacques d'Arc was baptised, about 1412, by the parish priest Jean Minet — the name is given by the witnesses heard at the nullity trial of 1456. The building has changed a great deal: enlarged several times, as the dates carved on the keystones show, it was entirely turned round in 1824, the choir taking the place of the old porch and the entrance opening beneath the bell tower. From Joan's day there remain the main fabric, a few pieces of furnishing and a 13th-century stoup that generations of hands have polished. The birthplace, set against the same slope, is a few metres away: the judges at Rouen, in 1431, would question Joan about that nearness, about the bells she liked to hear ring and whose ringing she demanded of the village bell-ringer. It is the most ordinary place on the route, and the only one where we can be sure she passed almost every day of her childhood.

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Getting there : In the centre of Domrémy-la-Pucelle, on the D 164 between Neufchâteau and Vaucouleurs, next to the birthplace. Church open during the day, free and unguided; parking is at the car park of the Joan of Arc site, beside the departmental interpretation centre "Visages de Jeanne", which gives access to the house.

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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