Joan of Arc and the fake news (5/6) La Pucelle returns five years after the bonfire
Jeanne didn’t die at the stake in Rouen. The proof? She reappears five years later and leads a well-informed public life as attested by numerous documents.
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Joan of Arc and the fake news (4/6) Twenty-six months of public life
The eventful life of The Maid is well known. Yet it lasted only a little over two years.
Jeanne d’Arc and fake news (3/6) Who designed Operation Pucelle?
The ploy of the envoy from heaven to save the kingdom of France was conceived by an exceptional woman: Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Anjou, Queen of the Four Kingdoms. The operation was masterfully executed by another exceptional woman: the Pucelle d’Orléans.
Joan of Arc and the fake news (2/6) The Hundred Years War: why?
To understand the Johannine epic, we must go back to the context of the Hundred Years’ War and find out why Joan wanted, one fine day in 1428, to go and meet the king.
Joan of Arc and the fake news (1/6)
No, Joan of Arc was not a shepherdess, no she did not die on a great pyre in Rouen, no she was not called d’Arc, but Joan the Virgin. To put an end to the fake news of the 15th century that our historians have been indiscriminately repeating ever since.
The Seven Initiatory Journeys of Claude Vautrin
Claude Vautrin’s latest book, Sept voyages initiatiques, published by Kaïros*, takes us to distant lands where the visible world and the invisible sphere meet. Journeys to better understand others and, therefore, to better know oneself. A must read.
French Language Week…
… and the French-speaking world, from March 14 to 22, 2020. It is a celebration of the French language in all its diversity.
Nancy: free visit of the Villa Majorelle on the 1st Sunday of each month.
The Ecole de Nancy has left us an exceptional legacy, including the Villa Majorelle, now owned by the City of Nancy.
“Everything can change”, everything must change
Presented at the Deauville Festival and produced by actress Geena Davis, Tom Donahue’s documentary is devoted to parity in cinema.
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The great epidemics of history
The Chinese coronavirus in Wuhan province reminds us that contagious diseases have always decimated populations. A quick reminder of the main epidemics.
75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camp of Auschwitz: an exhibition in Nancy
The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust was established to commemorate the liberation of the Nazi camp of Auschwitz.
Nancy-Metz Academy celebrates Franco-German Day
January 22nd is the historic day of Franco-German friendship, the date of the signing of the Elysée Treaty and the Treaty of Aachen in 2019.