Becoming Joan of Arc In 1429, at around the age of 17, Joan asked the Dauphin to send her, and an army, to the siege of Orléans, a French city in the Loire valley which was at the time was under ...

She claimed to hear voices, led armies, and changed the course of a nation. Whether chosen by God or driven by delusion, Joan of Arc remains one of history’s greatest enigmas.

The Joan of Arc parade, which marched triumphantly through the packed streets of the French Quarter on Saturday, is absolutely one of the best parades in a town that knows a little something about ...

Only when I watched Carl Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc did I begin to think differently. More it was Renée Falconetti’s performance as Joan that turned the tables on me, her tears.

Half a decade after it was thought lost, this influential silent movie was rediscovered in a hospital cupboard.

The Joan of Arc parade kicks off Carnival season in the French Quarter in New Orleans, La. Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.

That is why the story of Joan of Arc resonates, why people all over the world are still drawn to her, and why her memory, if not her birthday, deserves to be celebrated on Jan. 6.

Joan of Arc may have died half a millennium ago — but the 19-year-old French maid-turned-military leader has remained an obsession. She’s become anything her fans want her to be: A miracle ...

Every year her party organizes a march in Paris that ends at a statue of Joan of Arc, whom Ms. Le Pen has extolled as a paragon of France’s Christian identity.