| LC control no. | n 85068749 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Ordre du Saint-Esprit |
| Variant(s) | Ordre des chevaliers du Saint-Esprit Royal Order of the Holy Spirit Order of the Holy Spirit (Order of chivalry) Order of the Knights of the Holy Spirit |
| Beginning date | 1578 |
| Ending date | 1830 |
| Associated country | France |
| Special note | Do not confuse with: Order of the Holy Spirit. |
| Found in | Pinoteau, H. Etat de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit en 1830, 1983: title page (Ordre du Saint-Esprit) Catholic encyclopedia (Royal Order of the Holy Spirit; founded in France by King Henry III in 1578; a purely secular order of the Court) Grand dictionnaire encyclopedique Larousse (under Henri III: l'ordre du Saint-Esprit (1578)) Wikipedia, viewed September 8, 2016 (Order of the Holy Spirit, also known as the Order of the Knights of the Holy Spirit; in French, Ordre du Saint-Esprit or Ordre des chevaliers du Saint-Esprit; an order of chivalry under the French monarchy; created by Henri III in 1578, it was the senior chivalric order of France by precedence; it was suppressed in 1791 during the French Revolution, then restored with the monarchy in 1814; it essentially ceased in 1830 without ever being formally dissolved) |
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