# French state-industrial war memory keeps Joan as a brand for armed national production

Date: 1918

## The fact

At the end of the First World War and in the following commemorative industrial culture, [Joan of Arc](/people/joan-of-arc) was used as a brand for French armed national production. This Fact stores that industrial-memory use.

## Context

Industrial policy can be tanks and can be schoolbooks.

Joan of Arc is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Library of Congress war-culture holdings and academic press independently describe Joan in wartime industrial patriotism.

Official or archival record: Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/; Library of Congress).

## Significance

Industrial-brand path. Medium confidence on factory-level effects; high that the brand existed in public.

A brand is not a Bible. Gutenberg is a different person.

## What is established and what is not

Established: post-1918 industrial-military uses of Joan as a national production emblem. Not established: that she designed a munitions plant.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Joan of Arc: https://factrail.ai/people/joan-of-arc

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.cambridge.org/
- https://www.loc.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-industrial-military-brand