"The Black Tulip" is a historical novel and a work of Romantic poetry written by Alexandre Dumas, père, first published in 1850. The story unfolds in 1672 during the time of tulip mania in the Netherlands. Dumas' last major historical novel is a tale of romantic love, jealousy and obsession, interweaving historical events surrounding the brutal murders of two Dutch statesman in 1672 with the phenomenon of tulipomania that gripped seventeenth-century Holland.