France, Oct. 25 -- Addressing supporters on Sunday afternoon, the far-right party's candidate for the 2027 presidential election invoked Joan of Arc as she urged them to overcome what she described as a mood of resignation and defeatism.

"No defeat is final as long as a people refuses to resign themselves to it," she said in the city closely associated with the medieval heroine.

Le Pen, whose conviction for misappropriating European public funds was recently upheld on appeal, sought to present her campaign as a broader project of national renewal.

"Our only guiding principle is France, its recovery and the happiness of the French people," she told supporters.

Drawing another parallel with Joan of Arc, she promised to "free minds from ...