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

New Orleans has faced tragedy again and again and always seems to bounce back, maintaining its reputation for jazz and ...

The Joan of Arc Parade, an annual event since 2008, honors the French heroine's birthday and marks the beginning of the ...

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

Joan d’Arc, who lived just 19 years, packed a lot into her short life. When she was 13, Joan began to have visions of herself leading France to victory over England—and though she was just a ...

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

Women dressed as angels, hands clasped in prayer, passed through New Orleans Monday evening to celebrate the first parade of ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National Rally party, has died aged 96, ...

Hundreds filled the streets Monday evening for the annual Joan of Arc parade through New Orleans’ historic French Quarter.

She ran around in silver sparkling shoes, her faux chainmail tunic shimmering in the freezing breeze, maneuvering horses made ...

A person dressed as Joan of Arc rides a horse during the annual Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc parade, kicking off the Mardi Gras ...