La Dumas, Alexandre 1802-1870 creator Maquet, Auguste 1813-1888 text utu 1999 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La Tulipe Noire" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a novel published in 1850. Set during the turbulent year of 1672 in the Dutch Republic, the story follows Cornélius van Baerle, an aspiring horticulturist obsessed with cultivating a black tulip to win a substantial prize. When political upheaval leads to his imprisonment for possessing his godfather's compromising letters, he finds himself aided by Rosa, his jailer's daughter. Meanwhile, his jealous neighbor Isaac Boxtel schemes to steal his botanical achievement and claim the reward for himself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Abridged edition See Also: #965, Full-length English Edition See Also: #26504, Latin-1, UTF-8, and HTML Edition Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tulipe_noire_(roman) Release date is 1999-09-01 Original publication data not identified Tulip Mania, 1634-1637 -- Fiction Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672 -- Fiction Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714 -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1910 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1910 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133051.0 1910