Name: La Tulipe Noire
SKU: 60481390
Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781530733477

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Illustrated by

Jhon La Cruz

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

27.9x21.6x0.6 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9781530733477

La Tulipe Noire

Alejandro Dumas (Author) · Jhon La Cruz (Illustrated by) · Createspace · Paperback

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Synopsis "La Tulipe Noire"

La Tulipe noire est un roman issu de la collaboration entre Alexandre Dumas et Auguste Maquet, paru en 1850. En 1672, le peuple de Hollande renverse la république des frères Jean et Corneille de Witt pour rétablir le stathouderat et le confier à Guillaume III d'Orange-Nassau. Indifférent à ces événements politiques, le filleul de Corneille de Witt, Cornélius van Baerle, ne songe qu'à confectionner une tulipe noire, pour laquelle la Société Horticole de Haarlem a promis une récompense de cent mille florins (voir tulipomanie ). Son projet sera contrarié par l'accusation de trahison qui pèse contre lui et par les stratagèmes d'un voisin envieux, Isaac Boxtel. Cependant, l'espoir de voir cette quête aboutir renaîtra avec la rencontre de la belle Rosa.

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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