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.
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 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. The Google Translate version of the Wikipedia page 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?
