{"id":349711,"date":"2018-02-24T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mixed-race-girl-to-play-joan-of-arc-in-upcoming-city-celebration\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T19:38:17","slug":"mixed-race-girl-to-play-joan-of-arc-in-upcoming-city-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mixed-race-girl-to-play-joan-of-arc-in-upcoming-city-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Race Girl to Play Joan of Arc in Upcoming City Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<h4>Another European Historical Figure Replaced in Dramatization<\/h4>\n<p>The State Prosecutor in the French city of Orl\u00e9ans is investigating possible incitement to racial hatred, following Twitter attacks on a mixed-race girl chosen to play Joan of Arc in upcoming city celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>17-year-old Mathilde Edey Gamassou had been chosen to play the Medieval heroine of French history in Orl\u00e9ans\u2019 annual Johannique festival. A local schoolgirl of African (B\u00e9nin) and Polish descent, she will ride on horseback through the city center dressed in armor during the celebrations, commemorating Joan of Arc\u2019s breaking of the siege of the city by the English in 1429.<\/p>\n<p>The Maiden of Orl\u00e9ans remains a politically sensitive figure in France. Joan of Arc was considered a loose cannon in her day: a teenage girl leading an army and a Catholic mystic who had visions telling her to throw the English out of France during the Hundred Years\u2019 War. Since the 1970s, the National Front has appropriated her image as a defender of the motherland, organizing annual demonstrations in Paris on May 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cette jeune femme m\u00e9tisse, catholique, Mathilde Edey Gamassou, a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisie pour figurer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JeanneDarc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JeanneDarc<\/a>. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 l&#8217;objet de moqueries, certains estimant qu&#8217;elle n&#8217;est pas assez blanche. Bande de d\u00e9biles racistes, continuez \u00e0 donner du grain \u00e0 moudre au moulin des indig\u00e9nistes! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ZCgeH8DP2\">pic.twitter.com\/8ZCgeH8DP2<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Pamela Tamby (@PamelaTamby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PamelaTamby\/status\/967071797425426432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Local newspaper La R\u00e9publique du Centre reported&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/mixed-race-girl-to-play-joan-of-arc-in-upcoming-city-celebration\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another European Historical Figure Replaced in Dramatization The State Prosecutor in the French city of Orl\u00e9ans is investigating possible incitement to racial hatred, following Twitter attacks on a mixed-race girl chosen to play Joan of Arc in upcoming city celebrations. 17-year-old Mathilde Edey Gamassou had been chosen to play the Medieval heroine of French history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}