In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
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When a champion for atheism appeared, multitudes came out of the woodwork to embrace her as their Joan of Arc.
In 1440, Gilles de Rais, French marshal who fought for Joan of Arc, was hanged for Satanism and the murder of 140 children.
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There was a glimmer of regret when I finally got to Reims Cathedral, where there was no one with whom to marvel at the incredible story of Joan of Arc.
It certainly did on the day a few years ago, when a group of his supporters broke away from his annual May Day Joan of Arc parade in Paris.
In 1429, the English, retreating after the siege of Orleans, were attacked and defeated by French forces under Joan of Arc and Duc D'Alencon at the battle of Patay.
In semi-autobiographical style, he travels into his childhood and into history from Joan of Arc to De Gaulle in search of the people who gave France its sense of self, its soul.
Both new entries in the Top 10 are silent - Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera at eight, and Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc at nine.
Older children who have outgrown the running-in-circles phase can plot an outing to an historic statue (choose from Joan of Arc or Winston Churchill, among others) or a home state street.
By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar.
" Her competition includes Judy Davis for "Dash and Lilly, " Leelee Sobieski for "Joan of Arc, " Ann-Margret for "Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story" (Lifetime), and Helen Mirren for Showtime's "The Passion of Ayn Rand.
But there is none of the grandstanding we associate with accounts of the trials (literal and otherwise) of Thomas More and Joan of Arc, and none of the coy or witty testimony we've come to expect before Senate committees.
Joan of Arc could have been Brooklynn of Arc, Mata Hari could have been Dakota Hari or even North Dakota Hari, Bonnie Prince Charlie could have been Bonnie Prince Diesel and Good King Wenceslas could have been Good King Chesney.
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Natalie Portman, as skillful as she is attractive, does have her moments -- it's affecting to see her hair being shaved, like Joan of Arc -- but wide-eyed Evey whimpers endlessly, and tediously, on her way to becoming a fearless woman who's able to love.
Both the composition and the color of the images are stirringly beautiful, but they feel loaded with symbolism and sentiment: an emaciated man swaying with exhaustion during an interminable roll call appears to be experiencing a kind of transcendent ecstasy, like Joan of Arc on the pyre.
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