Her other notable plays included George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, about Joan of Arc, in 1963, which for which she was named ...

More than 20 years after her death, an inquiry into Joan’s trial ordered by Charles VII resulted in her sentence being overturned. Joan of Arc’s importance to the French people was further ...

Indeed, her death on May 30, 1431, is commemorated annually as a national feast day. But who was Joan of Arc, and why is her life so ingrained in the country's national psyche? Click through and ...

Gilles de Rais was a French nobleman from the 15th century who may, or may not have, been responsible for the death of over 100 ... man who fought alongside Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain’s most distinguished stage and screen icons and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has ...