description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius de Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined.
language: English
title: The Black Tulip
titlecomplete: The Black Tulip
characters: Johan de Witt, Cornelis de Witt, Rosa Gryphus, Cornelius van Baerle, Isaac Boxtel, William III of England and II of Scotland, Gryphus
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, Adventure, French Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 19665
places: The Hague, Dordrecht, Haarlem, Netherlands
publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society