La tulipe noire by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

"La tulipe noire" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a novel published in 1850. Set during the turbulent Dutch year of 1672, the story follows Cornélius van Baerle, a horticulturist obsessed with cultivating a rare black tulip worth a fortune. When political upheaval leads to his imprisonment, he smuggles precious tulip bulbs into his cell. There, the jailer's daughter Rosa falls in love with him and helps tend his prized flower—but a jealous rival threatens to steal everything he's worked for. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Author Maquet, Auguste, 1813-1888
Title La tulipe noire
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tulipe_noire_(roman)
Credits Produced by Chuck Greif
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
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 Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714 -- Fiction
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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