the black tulip

title of the story: the black tulip

the author: Aalexandre Dumas

place : In Haarlem.

time : In 1872

about the story:

The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country’s best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city’s oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard’s beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer.

Characters:

William, Prince of Orange, afterward William III. King of England.

Prince William was the eldest son of King William III of the Netherlands and his first wife, Princess Sophie of Württemberg. His nickname was Wiwill. At his birth, he held the third position in the line of succession to the Dutch throne and the seventeenth position in the line of succession to the British throne. A month afterwards on 7 October 1840, his great-grandfather, the reigning King William I of the Netherlands, abdicated the throne due to the disappointment over the recent Treaty of London, which recognized the independence of Belgium (previously provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands).

The main character in the story:

sophie:
Beautiful rose stems life,she is the daughter of the owner of the prison and her father was being unfair to the prisoners but she were sparing them.

cornelius:

man who loves cultvation the black tulip,but he entered to the prison.

he loved daughter of the ordered prison his name is sophie.

Johan de Witt or Jan de Witt:

 (24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672) was a key figure in Dutch politics in the mid-17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of globalisation made the United Provinces a leading European power during the Dutch Golden Age. De Witt controlled the Netherlands political system from around 1650 until shortly before his death in 1672 working with various factions from nearly all the major cities, especially his hometown, Dordrecht, and the city of birth of his wife, Amsterdam.

Colonel van Deeken :

aide-de-camp to William of Orange.

born:14 apr 1811

married:2 sep 1837

died: 9 jun 1875

Mynheer van Systens, Burgomaster of Haarlem and President of its Horticultural Society.

Rosa, his daughter, in love with Cornelius van Baerle.

Craeke, a confidential servant of John de Witt.

Alexandre Dumas:

Alexandre Dumas  born; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) also known as Alexandre Dumas,  was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas’ last novel, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.