More than 600 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but cultural fascination. Over the summer, we’ve witnessed Chappell ...

Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Joan of Arc movie has been in the works for decades. “This is something he’s talked about for 30 years,” his wife and creative partner Catherine Martin told me ...

Legendary French heroine Joan of Arc will be portrayed as nonbinary in a radical departure from the historic figure's usual depiction at London’s Globe Theatre.. A patron saint of France, who is ...

Journalist Allison Pearson wrote: "When I was a child, I had a book of inspiring women through history. Joan of Arc was one. That book and those amazing women meant a lot to a timid little girl.

Baz Luhrmann has set his new project, “Jehanne d’Arc,” at Warner Bros. Warners has confirmed that the filmmaker will next take on the epic tale of France’s national heroine and saint Joan ...

Dr Charlier said Joan of Arc was burned three times on 30 May in 1431, following her trial in the Normandy town of Rouen. She died of smoke inhalation. Nothing was said to remain after the third ...

Just six days ago, the ascendant star charged onto the VMA stage in full Joan of Arc regalia for a fiery performance of “Good Luck, Babe!” complete with flaming arrows and armored dancers.

Joan of Arc was an unlikely military hero who — believing she’d been recruited by God — led an army to save the French city of Orléans from a British siege in 1429.

Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), a classic of the silent film era and widely considered one of the ...