Alexandre Dumas 
La tulipe noire 

Faussement accusé de conspiration, le sympathique Cornélius Van Baerle est en prison. Grand amateur de tulipes, il pense avoir découvert le secret de cette merveille : ‘la tulipe noire’. Mais un rival sans scrupules essaie de lui voler sa découverte : heureusement, Rosa, sa jolie geôlière, intervient…

About the author

Alexandre Dumas, père (French for ‘father’, akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent.