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Jean-Marie Le Pen, who sees himself as the leader of the "nationalist right", assumes Joan of Arc as the symbol of his movement. It is not without irony that is is below the city's statue of Joan of Arc, which is covered with anti-fascist graffitis, where a policeman breaks down in front of my eyes, having been hit and wounded by a stone. Since the end of the 19th century the french extreme right considers Joan of Arc as the saviour of the french fatherland from englisch occupation during the Hundred Years' War, and she subsequently became symbol of catholic nationalism and as such a device to exclude the secular left, non-christian french and protestants. In 1884 the right asked for the establishment of a public holiday to commemorate Joan of Arc, but it was not accepted by the french parliament.

Today it is Jean-Marie Le Pen, who sees France threatened by a new kind of "occupation": immigration. His Front National celebrates Joan of Arc each 1st of May.