The ‘two-glasses-a-day’ president has often referred positively to wine’s cultural heritage and significance - a stance which concerns health professionals
St. Joan of Arc, byname the Maid of Orléans, French Sainte Jeanne d’Arc or La Pucelle d’Orléans, (born c. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, France died May 30, 1431, Rouen; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May), national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned to death by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic.
SIR – President Volodymyr Zelensky’s admission that Ukraine will not join Nato is a major concession illustrating an uncomfortable fact that the West seems unprepared to admit – for all the stories of spirited resistance, Ukraine is inexorably being ground down by Russia.