The Lady and the Unicorn

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Tracy Chevalier. The Lady and the Unicorn

THE TAPESTRIES

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Paris. Lent–Eastertide 1490

NICOLAS DES INNOCENTS

CLAUDE LE VISTE

GENEVIÈVE DE NANTERRE

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Brussels. Whitsuntide 1490

GEORGES DE LA CHAPELLE

PHILIPPE DE LA TOUR

ALIÉNOR DE LA CHAPELLE

CHRISTINE DU SABLON

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Paris and Chelles. Eastertide 1491

NICOLAS DES INNOCENTS

GENEVIÈVE DE NANTERRE

CLAUDE LE VISTE

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Brussels. May Day 1491—Septuagesima 1492

GEORGES DE LA CHAPELLE

ALIÉNOR DE LA CHAPELLE

CHRISTINE DU SABLON

PHILIPPE DE LA TOUR

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Paris. Septuagesima 1492

NICOLAS DES INNOCENTS

Epilogue

Notes and Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Tracy Chevalier

About the Publisher

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Little is known about the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. They were woven in c.1500, probably in Flanders. In 1841, they were rediscovered in very poor condition in Boussac. They were purchased and restored in 1882 by the French government for the Musée de Cluny in Paris (now the Musée National du Moyen Âge), where they still hang today. Among other things, the tapestries represent the five senses. Each tapestry is usually referred to by the sense it depicts: Taste, Touch, Smell, Sound and Sight. The sixth – which either introduces or concludes the series – is known as À Mon Seul Désir (To My One Desire), for the words woven into it.

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Claude swallowed. ‘Clove. For my tooth.’

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