Procession of knights of the Holy Spirit crossing the courtyard of the Palace of Fontainebleu, led by trumpeters, drummers, fifes, officers, novice knights, commanders and the King. Cortege des chevaliers du Saint-Esprit traversant la cour du palais de Fontainebleau, et se rendant a la chapelle pour la ceremonie de reception de nouveaux chevaliers. Woodcut by Etienne Huyot and Jules Huyot 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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