Her father Jacques d'Arc, mother Isabelle Romée, and uncle beg her to stay at home, but she leaves them and travels to Vaucouleurs, where she meets with the governor, Captain Robert de Baudricourt.

The dissipated Baudricourt initially scorns Joan's ideals, but her zeal eventually wins him over, and he gives her authority to lead French soldiers.

)[3] The artist Charles Claudel, who also repainted the interior of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in 1901 following Méliès's designs,[5] was the set painter for the film.

[4] Joan of Arc was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 264–275 in its catalogues,[3] where it was advertised as a pièce cinématographique à grand spectacle en 12 tableaux.

[4] As the film scholar Jacques Malthête has noted, Méliès's descriptions of the film in advertising material never mention that Joan's enemies are English; this omission occurs not only in the English-language materials (where mentioning conflict with the French may have been thought harmful to sales), but also in the French ones (where the omission is less understandable).

[3] In the United States, the Edison Manufacturing Company sold "dupes" (illegally duplicated prints) of the film.