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The Black Tulip is an
historical fiction novel written by
Alexandre Dumas, père.
Plot
The story begins with an 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 after; only gradually does the reader understand its connection with the foregoing 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).
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.
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