THE BLACK TULIP

ISBN: 9781595406033 Géneros: Sinópsis: Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks Visit us online at www1stWorldLibraryORG 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