I retraced my steps from the river and the bridge and veered off to the left to visit the house of Joan of Arc. I have to admit I could hardly believe my eyes. Whatever trees or garden had once surrounded it were now gone, and the house stood stark but elegant within its own space.
Joan’s house in 1995.
Joan’s house in 1995.The exterior of the house looks almost modern. For a start, it’s two storeys high. The afternoon sun was gentler now, and the plaster glowed with a cream tinge in the softer light. From the front, the left-hand side is some two to three metres higher than the right, giving it an almost rakish modernistic slope. The two front windows, both upstairs and downstairs, are large and wooden-framed. The right-hand side wall of the house slopes away from the front at a very ge
