The Joan RingThey said Joan never married, but the truth was more romantic than any proposal. In the spring of 1942 she fell for a French artist who sketched her portrait in a garden blooming with irises. He gave her a ring a delicate band of gold set with violet amethysts, the same shade as the flowers where they first met. When he returned to Paris, she slipped the ring onto her finger and never took it off, waiting for a letter that never came. Featuring three