French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen told thousands of supporters on Sunday that they are on the precipice of a national “Renaissance” as she officially opened her campaign for the Élysée Palace.
Another figure from France’s past is looming larger: Joan of Arc (1412-1431) was the maiden who, as a teenager, rallied the French to fight off the English. After winning battlefield victories, she was captured by the English and burned at the stake.
The director of the infamous Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony described Saint Joan of Arc as one of the “greatest transvestites” in French history.
One of the stranger facets is the apparent agreement by its creators that part of the purpose was to refute a French conservative theme park.
Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts in New York City on May 30, the feast day of St. Joan of Arc, the patron saint of prisoners who is revered by Catholics and admired by patriots everywhere as a pillar of strength in the face of political persecution.
French female warrior Joan of Arc has been cast as a gender-neutral character with “they/them” pronouns at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
A new Discovery+ show geared toward young audiences portrays former President Abraham Lincoln as a pioneering “queer” hero and said iconic Italian sculptor Michelangelo would “stroke more Adam than Eve,” among other things. Indeed, “The Book of Queer” refers to Catholic Saint Joan of Arc as “non-binary.”
Margaret Atwood has declared Greta Thunberg the ‘Joan of Arc of the environment.’ The Canadian novelist, best known for her dystopian feminist fable The Handmaid’s Tale, was speaking on the podcast of the environmental extremist action group Extinction Rebellion.
A Christian organization has launched an online petition to block a Brussels opera house from staging a performance of an oratorio called Joan of Arc at the Stake, in which the Catholic saint appears naked.
