Cancelling Joan of Arc?

Every year, the city of Orléans celebrates with pomp and circumstance the liberation of the city from the English yoke during the Hundred Years’ War, thanks to the victorious intervention of Saint Joan of Arc at the head of the French armies. This year, one of the “pages” chosen to escort a town girl who plays Joan, was thrown out because he belongs to an organization that advocates what Joan did.
 

 

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