Commander of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, a military order founded in 1693 by Louis XIV.
Commander of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, a military order founded in 1693 by Louis XIV. The King was the Grand Master of the order, which had three ranks: Grand-Croix (Grand Cross), Commandeur (Commander) and Chevalier (Knight). Handcolored copperplate engraving of a knight from a religious military order from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796).
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