Napoleón III encargó una estatua de Juan de Arco para París en un intento de reestablecer la confianza francesa después de la derrota humillante sufrida en 1870 por el ejército prusiano.
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A statue of Joan of Arc for Paris was commissioned in 1872 by the Ministère de l'Instruction publique et des Beaux Arts under Napoleon III and was intended to help re-establish French confidence after the humiliating military defeat of 1870 by the Prussian army.
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