The Black Tulip is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, set in the Netherlands in 1672. It blends political intrigue with a quest to cultivate a black tulip, and a story of rivalry and devotion. It offers an engaging mix of adventure and romance.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
THE BLACK TULIP
By Alexandre Dumas
Contents
Chapter 1. A Grateful People
On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be
Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its
Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected,—the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where,
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