The Black Tulip

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The Black Tulip
Author	Alexandre Dumas
Original title	La Tulipe Noire
Country	France
Language	Translated from French
Genre(s)	Historical, Romantic
Publisher	Baudry, Paris 1850
Publication date	French 1850
Pages	234 p. (Penguin Classics Edition)
ISBN	978-0-14-044892-4 (Penguin Classics Edition)

The Black Tulip is an historical fiction novel written by Alexandre Dumas, père.

[edit] Plot

The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen — considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity.

The main plot line, involving fictional characters, takes place in the year and a half later; only gradually does the reader understand its connection with the killing of the de Witt brothers.

The city of Haarlem in The Netherlands has set a prize of 100,000 guldens to the person who can grow a black tulip.

This begins a competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, the honour and fame.

The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded, when he suddenly is thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who shall be his comfort and help, and at last his rescuer.

It was originally published in three volumes in 1850 as La Tulipe Noire by Baudry (Paris).

[edit] Film

In 1963, a French movie starring Alain Delon, La Tulipe noire, was not based on the novel. The film's events occur a few days before the French Revolution, while the novel of Alexandre Dumas takes place during Holland's Golden Age.

[edit] External links

The Black Tulip at Project Gutenberg
eLook Literature: The Black Tulip - HTML version broken down chapter by chapter.

v • d • e Alexandre Dumas, père

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