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The Black Tulip

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The year is 1672, and the Haarlem Tulip Society has offered a hundred thousand florin prize to the tulip breeder who can create a black tulip, without imperfection or spot of other color. Cornelius van Baerle of the sleepy village of Dordrecht is one of the leading contenders for the prize. He’s a medical doctor who knows something of science, a skilled painter, so knows something of art, and absolutely obsessed with tulips. It doesn’t hurt that he’s independently wealthy already, so he doesn’t have to worry about a lack of funding while he concentrates on the project.Cornelius van Baerle is entirely indifferent to politics, so is unaware that his godfather and namesake Cornelius de Witt and his brother Johan de Witt are in deep trouble with the supporters of William of Orange, the new Stadhouder of Holland. Nor does Cornelius realize that he has inadvertently made an enemy of his next door neighbor, rival tulip breeder Isaac Boxtel. Thus it comes as a complete surprise to Cornelius when he’s arrested for treason and sentenced to death. How is he ever to create the black tulip now?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This 1850 book by Alexandre Dumas is tied to a Real Life event, the mob murder of the de Witt brothers, but takes off from there for a romantic story. It's considered by some to be his last really great novel.While the novel has been adapted several times, the most famous movie, La Tulipe noir (1963, starring Alain Delon) only has the same name, being inspired more by The Scarlet Pimpernel.Not to be confused with the 2010 movie The Black Tulip.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Tropes exhibited in this novel include:
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