Dumas Pere's last masterpiece "The Black Tulip" is a Holland -
based historical exposition, covering a period of principality by
William of Orange (the son of Henrietta Stuart, and the grandson of
British King Charles I), with arms of Stadtholder and the
Captain-General. 1672 approaches. The arrest and cruel execution of
de Witt brothers - political celebrities, deemed traitors to the
throne for enforcing the Perpetual Edict, inflict a vigorous
conflict between the French oriented liberals and radicals. Leaving
the political celebrities on the background, Dumas shifts the focus
on a horticultural celebrity, the tulip. The central character
becomes Cornelius van Baerle, the godson of perished Cornelius De
Witt. A medical doctor and a serious tulip fancier, Van Baerle
produces the first flawless black tulip in the world. Being
slandered and sabotaged by his envious and wicked neighbor Isaac
Boxtel, Cornelius faces numbers of ordeals and trials, but finally
wins the Grand Prize for his patent. Converting the original
300-page 33-chapter prose into a 104-page stanza of 11 epics,
"Tulipa van Baerlensis" keeps the plot of "The black tulip"
unaltered.
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