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The Black Tulip. Alexandre Dumas. Standard Ebooks - Fiction. After the conviction of two prominent politicians for sedition, Dumas’s story focuses on the trial of an accused collaborator: one Cornelius van Baerle, whose only wish is to grow his tulips in peace. His crowning achievement is set to be the impossible black tulip, a feat worth one ...
Nov 29, 2022 · The Black Tulip. Alexandre Dumas. Open Road Media, Nov 29, 2022 - Fiction - 320 pages. The immortal classic novel of love, ambition, intrigue set amid the Tulip mania of the Dutch Golden Age. In seventeenth-century Holland, tulips are a highly valued commodity. When the Tulip Society of Haarlem announces a prize of one hundred thousand guilders ...
Jul 1, 1997 · The black tulip Note: Translation of La tulipe noire Credits: Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 -- Fiction Subject: Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672 -- Fiction Subject
The Black Tulip (French: La Tulipe noire) is a French-Italian-Spanish film which reused some names in the novel of the same title by Alexandre Dumas but its story does not follow the novel. It is, essentially, a star vehicle for the popular French actor Alain Delon .
A nobleman dons the mask of his bandit twin and becomes a hero to the people. Director. Christian-Jaque. Screenwriter. Henri Jeanson, Paul Andreota, Christian-Jaque. Production Co. Flora Film. Genre.
- Drama
The Black Tulip. For centuries, tulip lovers dreamed of an inky black flower. The myth of a black tulip inspired the 1850 novel by Alexander Dumas, a story that influenced generations. It is a powerful tale about love, jealousy, and obsession. In the story, a magnificent prize is offered to the first man or woman to produce a pure black tulip.
A prize of 100,000 guilders awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a bitter competition in 17th-century Holland. Cornelius von Baerle, a gifted and passionate florist, has dedicated himself to cultivating the elusive flower.
