The first parade of the Mardi Gras season took place as scheduled in the French Quarter despite security fears following the ...

The keep, now called the Tower of Joan of Arc is the only surviving structure. Photograph by G. Courtellemont, Corbis/Getty Images Was Joan sure of being in God’s grace, she was asked?

The parade that gets the Mardi Gras season started will be bigger, start later, and follow a reversed route this year.

“The pictures,” McNally wrote on Instagram ... a partial suit of armor and a white muslin peasant dress for her Joan of Arc ...

while the second posted images of bananas in response. The account that posted the baboon comparison has since been deleted. The city of Orléans picks a teenager to play Joan of Arc every year.

The first parade of the Mardi Gras season will roll tonight, less than a week after a man drove his truck into crowds on ...