The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas
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 following eighteen months; only gradually does the reader understand its connection with the killing of the de Witt brothers.
The novel was originally published in three volumes in 1850 as La Tulipe Noire by Baudry Paris.
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This work and all of the same author are in the public domain since have passed more than 70
years after the author39;s death.