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Hundreds filled the streets Monday evening for the annual Joan of Arc parade through New Orleans’ historic French Quarter.

Joan of Arc was an unlikely military hero who — believing ... who accused her of being a heretic — for wearing men’s clothes — and burned her at the stake. Her martyrdom earned her sainthood.