The Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc second lines to the Joan of Arc statue in the French Quarter on Jan. 5, 2025. Life Sacco (center), a senior at the Isidore Newman School, will play one of two Joans in this ...

You might think that marching through the French Quarter with a couple dozen Flaming Heretics would keep you warm. But you’d be wrong. It was 41 degrees at the start of the Joan of Arc parade Monday ...

It isn’t easy getting around the construction sites in the French Quarter these days, which the Krewe de Jeanne d’Arc discovered as they planned their Jan. 6 parade. This year’s medieval procession ...

Just as Joan of Arc led the French army to victory in 1429, the teenage heroine leads New Orleans into carnival season this Saturday, Jan. 6. The annual parade celebrates Joan’s birthday — which, if ...

Twelfth Night is the beginning of Carnival and birthday of Joan of Arc, who led the French in victories against the British near the end of the Hundred Years War. She was burned at the stake at the ...