The unicorn is a timid and wild animal. It would be impossible to capture him if it were not because he has a weakness: he adores the virgins. When a virgin girl calls him, he goes quickly and places his nose (half horse and half goat) on his lap. As he looks at her sweetly, he caresses himself. It is a trap (is the girl aware of it?): The hunters arrive immediately and kill him. These are, briefly, the characteristics and tragic history of the unicorn or lyocorn in literature and medieval figurative representations. The visitor who admires the six tapestries of the Parisian Cluny Museum, in the circular room that surrounds it, has the impression of being faced with a somewhat more complex enigma than the story we have just told.