Old Ceramic plate French. Who is this guy?

Picked up this plate because i thought it was old and interesting.
Front has a raised figure. and in french the writing is Glory/Honor/Freedom/ and Homeland. Plate is 8 1/2" appears to be no marks on the back but some crazing.

Mikey

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=maj...=445&biw=320&client=safari&prmd=isnv&hl=en-US

 

Guy?

 

You're on it tonight INH. Thank you very much.

 

Who said Guy? Oh I did lol+

 

Well maybe John of Arc?

 

Joanathon

 

I always liked Bernard Shaw's first few sentences of the preface to Saint Joan:

Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412; burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431; rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456; designated Venerable in 1904; declared Blessed in 1908; and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the Middle Ages. Though a professed and most pious Catholic, and the projector of a Crusade against the Husites, she was in fact one of the first Protestant martyrs. She was also one of the first apostles of Nationalism, and the first French practitioner of Napoleonic realism in warfare as distinguished from the sporting ransom-gambling chivalry of her time. She was the pioneer of rational dressing for women, and, like Queen Christina of Sweden two centuries later, to say nothing of Catalina de Erauso and innumerable obscure heroines who have disguised themselves as men to serve as soldiers and sailors, she refused to accept the specific woman's lot, and dressed and fought and lived as men did.​

 

Love the guy, I am named after her (my second name, Jeanne). I blame it on a moment of patriotism by my French connection. I used to have a model of a statue of the guy on horseback in my bedroom as a child. The things parents inflict on children.

She was not from the Vosges mountains btw, but from Domrémy, a village in a very tranquil setting near the river Meuse in Lorraine.

 

https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/off...te-onnaing-gloire-honneur-liberte-patrie.html

the figure of Jeanne was and still is used by nationalists and groups of the extreme right to their ends.

it is indeed Onnaing.
http://barbotine.free.fr/onnaing.htm

"liberté" meant rather "freedom of the Biftecks" at the time.

 

Very cool. But how old is my plate?

 

good question. without one of the marks and also no model-no. given in my link, it's a pure guess.
she was always a figure of national unity, so perhaps after the loss of Alsace and Lorraine to the Germans in 1871 ? or after 1918 when those two finally came back to France and the destroyed factory was rebuilt ? the end was 1938 - as if the village-dogs already sniffed the stench of the German "comeback"...
from the bottom I personally could imagine that it's even older, because there were other companies in Onnaing and the sujet might have been taken over.