The very first parade of the Carnival season is also one of the very best. On Jan. 6, the 17th annual Joan of Arc parade will march through the French Quarter, celebrating the birthday of the ...

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A colossal bronze statue of Joan of Arc will be removed from public display in the French city of Nice just three months after it was unveiled, after judges ruled the city had breached public ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Visitors to Wichita City Hall can now see the original 1970 gift from Orléans, France, to the City: a stone statue of Joan of Arc, a patron saint of France. Orléans ...

Heroine, martyr, and saint, Joan of Arc has been an incarnation of French national identity and pride for six centuries.

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey and Enchanted April, died Thursday. She was 95.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

LONDON, Jan. 17 (Reuters) — British actor Joan Plowright, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, has died aged 95, her family said on Friday. Plowright made her on-screen debut in ...