The secret of the Unicorn

The secret of the Unicorn (original French title: Le Secret de la Licorne) is the eleventh title in the comic book series the adventures of Tintin , written and drawn by Belgian cartoonist Hergé (1907-1983). The story first appeared as a serial in Le Soir Jeunesse, the youth supplement of the Belgian French-language newspaper Le Soir, of 11 June 1942 to 14 January 1943 and came later that year in French in book form. The story is continued in Red Rackham's treasure .

It is one of the two albums which play in Belgium. It is also the first Kuifjealbum that was translated to the Dutch (1946). In 1974 appeared a new translation.



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[hide] *1 characters who are introduced in this album  ==Characters who are introduced in this album[ Edit] == ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.At a flea market the Tintin runs detectives Thomson and Thompson bump, which have been sent on the road due to a recent increase in pickpocketing. However, their portfolios turn out also stolen, which Tintin them money for shooting. Tintin buys the same afternoon a scale model of an old sailing ship. Two men, one with a black beard, the other large and unfriendly with mustache, try to buy off immediately. As Tintin at home, comes one of them at the door and explains that he would like to have the ship because he collector is. Tintin, however, the model would to his friend Captain Haddock as a gift and saves each bid off. Tintin-dog Bobbie let the ship fall to the ground, causing the mast breaks down, but Tintin can recovering.
 * 2 Story
 * Background 3
 * 4 Trivia
 * Nestor
 * Brothers m. and g. Bird
 * Ivan Ivanovich Saccharin
 * Aristides Rapier

As Tintin ship to Haddock shows, brings this him right away to his apartment. There hang a portrait of Haddock has his ancestor François, Knight Hadoque, with in the background the exact same ship, The Unicorn.As Tintin comes home, show the ship model stolen. Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine Tintin suspects the collector and goes at the man along. Sakharine does indeed have a model of the Unicorn in his possession, but not that of Tintin, because the mast is undamaged. When Tintin comes back home with him again, there appears to be broken into. The burglar searched everything, but this time nothing has taken away.

Come the next morning Thomson and Thompson along to their debt and find that their portfolios are gone again. However, the night before they had also tried to go along with Tintin and were when the rude man walked into of the flea market. While Tintin cleans his living room, he discovers a parchment under Cabinet. He understands that this had been hidden in the mast of the model, but there at the fall tumbling out. The thief had come back to the parchment from here and knew to look for. Tintin suspects now that he is a treasure on the tracks and goes to the captain. This has in the meantime old heirlooms of Knight Hadoque looked up and tells Tintin ship journalthe contents of Hadoques: the Unicorn is the end of seventeenth century attacked and conquered by Red Rackham and his pirates. By all crew members of the Unicorn is only Knight Hadoque not immediately killed. While Hadoque is tied to the mast, let him see his treasure red Rackham. If the pirates become drunk in the evening, Hadoque escapes, kills Rackham in single combat and then blows the ship up, while he himself wegroeit to a nearby island.

Tintin tells of the parchment, but it turns out his wallet stolen. He and Haddock decide to Mr Sakharine to look up. This turns out robberies, in which the parchment out of his stolen Unicorn is. The description of the thief will match that of the man from the flea market. This same man to Tintin and Haddock surprise waiting him at his home on and asking for a call. However, he is shot from a passing car.

Thomson and Thompson have managed to catch the pickpocket, but gained only his jacket, in which Tintin portfolio was found. A few days later, Tintin is kidnapped. He wakes up in the basement of Castle Mill closed. His captors, the Bird brothers, the other two parchments that he renders them requirements (which he hasn't). Tintin escapes and is rescued by the master in the Nick and Thomson and Thompson, because the shot man left a clue pointing to birds; so he gave the name to know the perpetrators. Maximus bird, the most dangerous of the two, escaped. The other brother confession: everything on the Bird brothers are antique dealers, which in the Castle a scale model of the Unicorn had discovered, after which they derived from the parchment in the mast had to be that two models. They gave their agents to find the other two models. One of them, Barnabas, discovered this. This, he stole the ship's model of Tintin and the parchment by Sakharine. Barnabas, however, was not satisfied with his payment and wanted the case to Tintin betrayed, which Maximus shot him. Tintin was kidnapped because the brothers felt that he had the two parchments stolen from them.

Thomson and Thompson eventually urged the pickpocket through the wash brand in his jacket. The man turns out to be a Kleptomaniac, Aristides Rapier, former official who can't make it to steal wallets for his collection. This also explains where the two disappeared parchments left off: Rapier had the portfolio of Maximus Bird stolen. The parchment of Tintin is recovered as Maximus Bird is arrested at the border. By the three discover parchments to Tintin and the captain where the location of the island sunk the Unicorn . With this information, they can now go find red Rackham's treasure, which is still on board the sunken Unicornshould be. ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hergés friend Gérard Liger-Belair, who owned a shop in ship models on scale, popped for the display of an old wooden ship libraries and archives in. He put Hergé the choice for a Dutch merchant ship, a French warship and that of an English frigate. Hergé chose the French ship. Then studied Liger-Belair the book ' Architectura Navalis ", from which he took the data for drawing the details. These were based on the shipsBrillant and Soleil Royalaround 1690, that part of the war fleet of the French King Louis XIV. The ships had 56 guns on board and were among those of the third rank. The figurehead, that of a Unicorn, was taken over by an English frigate ship.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  despite this, the ship was not exactly to reality depicted. So is the ship on the painting with the portrait of Knight Hadoque too narrow and kanonsluiken are not well distributed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jacques Vicente, a close friend of Hergé, is pictured in the foreground in the album on page 2, box 14. He also appears in three other Tintin albums. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The theme of this story was formerly on display at the Belgian amusement park Walibi in Wavre.
 * The story is along with the crab with the golden claws and Red Rackham's treasure filmed in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn .