The Warrior Maid Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in Domrémy, a small village in northeastern France near the border of the lands controlled by the English. From the age of 13, Joan claimed to have ...

Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), ...

was burned at the stake,” Racette said. “She is the patron saint of France. She represents what is most dear to French people.” To get the stone statue of Joan of Arc to Wichita, Orléans ...