<p>In the first episode, d'Eon asks a woman about the "nqm" motif and is directed to go to a church to read the "Psalm of Vengeance" in the "ancient tongue" (i.e. Hebrew). While he is there, we see two seven-branched candelabra on the table.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/EtKiI.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/EtKiIm.png" alt="still with candlesticks"></a></p>

<p>This was strange to me, since the menorah, a <em>Jewish</em> symbol, was the first object I associated with "seven-branched candelabra." My internet searches did not clarify this:</p>

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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple)#In_other_cultures" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> suggests that the Orthodox church uses the menorah in liturgy, but <em>Le Chevalier d'Eon</em> takes place in France, where Western Christianity predominates.</li>
<li>While I found a number of results that mentioned menorot in churches, I was not given much reason to believe that this was <em>traditional</em> practice.

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<li>I did find <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160720055638/http://www.catholic-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?59615-Milan-Cathedral-Menorah" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this forum post</a>. The Google Translate version of <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candelabro_Trivulzio" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Wikipedia page</a> linked suggests that ornate versions of such candelabra were common in the medieval period. However, I cannot tell from this whether they were still common by the period in which <em>Le Chevalier d'Eon</em> is set or whether smaller versions were ever at all common.</li>
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<li>I searched for images of seven-branched candelabra; the results were largely Judaism-related.</li>
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<p>Is there any in-universe reason (whether specific to <em>Le Chevalier d'Eon</em>, or related to its setting) why such candelabra are being used?</p>

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There's one more issue that comes to mind (why does it seem that these candles are being used so frivolously, _if_ they're indeed supposed to be menorot?) but I'll leave that for now as I'm unsure of the specifics and would have to sit on it.
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`This was strange to me, since the menorah, a Jewish symbol`. The Protestant Christian church  I attended as a child also contained both a seven and 9 branched candelbra. I was told this was to show were our roots lay, such a symbolism might be applied here as well.
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Why does the church have seven-branched candelabra?
# Why does the church have seven-branched candelabra?
Posted by: username_0 on 2016-07-20
In the first episode, d'Eon asks a woman about the "nqm" motif and is directed to go to a church to read the "Psalm of Vengeance" in the "ancient tongue" (i.e. Hebrew). While he is there, we see two seven-branched candelabra on the table.

[![still with candlesticks](https://i.sstatic.net/EtKiIm.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/EtKiI.png)

This was strange to me, since the menorah, a *Jewish* symbol, was the first object I associated with "seven-branched candelabra." My internet searches did not clarify this:

* [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple)#In_other_cultures) suggests that the Orthodox church uses the menorah in liturgy, but *Le Chevalier d'Eon* takes place in France, where Western Christianity predominates.
* While I found a number of results that mentioned menorot in churches, I was not given much reason to believe that this was *traditional* practice.
  + I did find [this forum post](http://web.archive.org/web/20160720055638/http://www.catholic-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?59615-Milan-Cathedral-Menorah). The Google Translate version of [the Wikipedia page](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candelabro_Trivulzio) linked suggests that ornate versions of such candelabra were common in the medieval period. However, I cannot tell from this whether they were still common by the period in which *Le Chevalier d'Eon* is set or whether smaller versions were ever at all common.
* I searched for images of seven-branched candelabra; the results were largely Judaism-related.

Is there any in-universe reason (whether specific to *Le Chevalier d'Eon*, or related to its setting) why such candelabra are being used?
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> **username_0**: There's one more issue that comes to mind (why does it seem that these candles are being used so frivolously, _if_ they're indeed supposed to be menorot?) but I'll leave that for now as I'm unsure of the specifics and would have to sit on it.  
> **username_1**: `This was strange to me, since the menorah, a Jewish symbol`. The Protestant Christian church  I attended as a child also contained both a seven and 9 branched candelbra. I was told this was to show were our roots lay, such a symbolism might be applied here as well.  
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