![]() When she was just a graduate student, historian Martha Hanna published an influential essay looking at why the extreme-right group Action française venerated St. Second, during World War I, there was a strong appetite in France and among its allies for a figure symbolizing an unlikely commander of a beaten-down army who won the fact that Joan was a woman showed that strength and power didn’t belong only to men. ![]() So how did the late-medieval heretic turn into two very different symbols in modern times? Scholars suggest that to answer that question, you need to understand first how proto-fascist elements tried to undermine the democratic government and promote a “true” France-one without Jews, immigrants, or academics. ![]() ![]() The fact that Joan was a woman showed that strength and power didn’t belong only to men. ![]()
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