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After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

This biography, presented in novelistic form, shows the impact of an illiterate peasant girl on the course of the Hundred Years' War. Twain once said of the book, “I like Joan of Arc best of all ...

Joan of Arc is one of the earliest examples of strong women military leaders. She's credited with helping the French army win the Hundred Years War. Tragically, she was captured and delivered to ...

Whereas Divine G makes art in constricted circumstances ... Does it feel like your life has completely changed in the past four years? It has, but I can feel on the inside where it’s been ...

“In Orléans, it brought me to tears to see the twin bronze statue of our own Joan of Arc sitting in Orléans, but with holes from shrapnel from World War II ... work of art, like so many ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Happy 2025! But just as we recover from New Year’s Eve and the holiday season, New Orleans gears up for Twelfth Night and the start of Carnival. This weekend is filled ...

The Krewe de Jeanne d’Arc has altered its time and route for 2025. The procession featuring a mounted Joan of Arc and legions ... For the last few years, musician Alex Wasily, who can be seen ...

The news that “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Netflix’s most ambitious series in Latin America, injected more than $52 million (225 billion Colombian Pesos) into the Colombian economy is ...

Marco Antonio González in One Hundred Years of Solitude. (Pablo Arellano/Netflix) Netflix is a Macondoesque enterprise, a promised land of infinite cultural riches that became a ruin of ...