The Maid was Joan of Arc, whose role in liberating the city of Orléans in 1429 had put courage back into the hearts of the embattled French. Even so, her capture soon after was a morale boost for ...

Celine and Therese were inseparable in their youth ... For Mother Agnes's feast, she produced a play about St. Joan of Arc. Céline joined the convent a few months earlier and played the role ...

More than 800 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but ...

In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to ...

Viking has pre-empted Woman, Warrior, Witch: The Life and Afterlives of Joan of Arc, the debut trade book by Anne Curry. Commissioning editor Evangeline Stanford acquired world all-language rights ...

She has undertaken such formidable roles as Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I for the BBC and Lady Macbeth on Broadway and at the National Theatre. She first won wider recognition when she played ...

This year promises to be especially marvelous, when the venerable Uptown float parade is joined by one of the most magical downtown marching parades, in a two-for-one tribute to Joan of Arc.