Reception of a knight in the Order of Saint Michel, created by King Louis XI at Ambroise castle, 1 August 1469. From a 16th century manuscript Statuts de l’Ordre. Reception d’un chevalier de l’ordre de Saint-Michel, cree par Louis XI au chateau d’Ambroise. Woodcut by Etienne Huyot and Jules Huyot after J. Petot from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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