The Black Tulip  (English, Paperback, Alexandre Dumas)

The Black Tulip is a historical novel and Romantic poetry, written by Alexandre Dumas, père, first published in 1850. Alexandre Dumas, père, (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France—died December 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe), one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century. Without ever attaining indisputable literary merit, Dumas succeeded in gaining a great reputation first as a dramatist and then as a historical novelist, especially for such works as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.