The Black Tulip

This book begins with a historic event of 1672, the lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, considered rebels against the stadtholder William of Orange.

The Black Tulip

Alexandre Dumas

MacMillan

2005

Abstract

It begins with a historic event of 1672, the lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, considered rebels against the stadtholder William of Orange.

During these events there was tulip mania across the Netherlands. In this scenarios, the main fictional character Cornelius Van Baerle, belonged to the natural school, whose motto was: "To despise flowers is to offend God", and thus followed the syllogism.

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Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip, MacMillan, 2005.

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