

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.stack.imgur.com/EtKiIm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/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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Why does the church have seven-branched candelabra?