UNESCO lists the Reims cathedral complex that staged the 1429 coronation
In 1991 UNESCO listed the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, the former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and the Palace of Tau at Reims. The listing is a late public-knowledge instrument around the same building as the 1429 coronation. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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In 1991 UNESCO listed the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, the former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and the Palace of Tau at Reims. The listing is a late public-knowledge instrument around the same building as the 1429 coronation.
Context
A listing can tourist-ify and can conserve. 1429 remains a separate legitimacy Fact.
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.
Why it matters
Heritage-access path. High confidence on the 1991 listing.
A plaque is not a crown. Keep 1429 and 1991 unmerged.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Joan of Arc
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.1 · verified
Complex: her campaign made the 1429 rite possible. The 1991 listing is a conservation-and-access act by later states.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactUNESCO lists the Reims cathedral complex that staged the 1429 coronation
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 1991 · verified
World Heritage status increased public interpretation and conservation of the coronation site as a knowledge object.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.UNESCOUNESCO · High credibility · verified
- 2.UNESCO — Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, ReimsUNESCO World Heritage Centre · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
The UNESCO list page is the official instrument. UNESCO’s general portal independently frames World Heritage as a public programme.
Established: 1991 Reims UNESCO listing. Not established: that Joan authored a nomination, or that listing reversed 1431.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJoan of Arc
- contributed toFactUNESCO lists the Reims cathedral complex that staged the 1429 coronation
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). UNESCO lists the Reims cathedral complex that staged the 1429 coronation. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-unesco-reims-1991
https://factrail.ai/facts/joa-unesco-reims-1991
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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