Finally, in 1972 — 14 years after it was first offered to the city and eight after it was gifted by de Gaulle — the statue of Joan of Arc was installed in a patch of green dubbed Place de ...

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from Domrémy, changed the course of the Hundred Years' War by leading France to victory over ...

Did the real Joan or Arc look anything like this statue ... during World War II both the Vichy government and Charles de Gaulle's government-in-exile appealed to her legacy, while these days ...

The first and indispensable condition was the support of Winston Churchill, whose romantic imagination kindled to the idea of a Joan-of-Arc-like crusade. “From one end of the drama to the other,” de ...

follow de Gaulle’s August 1944 progress from the Arc de Triomphe to Notre Dame. In doing this, one would find de Gaulle himself refuting accusations of Anglophobia and ingratitude toward the U.S ...