All Blog Posts Tagged 'Tulip' (2)

The Tulip Agreement by Arnold Jansen op de Haar

During the past few weeks I’ve frequently been reminded of the 1634–1637 tulip mania. In the early seventeenth century, French ladies at court would pay hundreds of guilders for a tulip flower, which they wore in their décolleté at gala evenings.

The tulip market in Haarlem collapsed on a dark February evening in 1637. Suddenly people became aware they were dealing with a scam. It was the first well reported boom and bust; they called it tulip mania.

I had two dreams last…

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Added by Bernadette Jansen op de Haar on May 2, 2012 at 12:08pm — No Comments

The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig

ISBN: 9780451220042

Publisher: Penguin

Rating: A

Back with another adventure is Eloise Kelly, “historian extraordinaire”, in her sophomore novel The Masque of the Black Tulip. Eloise is off to find out more about the elusive Pink Carnation, England’s premier spy during the Napoleonic Wars. The Pink Carnation’s identity had remained a mystery until Eloise discovered the identity in our first adventure together, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. Eloise is… Continue

Added by Meredith on February 3, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments