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After creating several new species, he set to work to create a black tulip, for which the Horticultural Society of Harlem had offered a prize of 100,000 florins. In the house adjoining that of van Baerle, lived another tulip-grower, named Boxtel, who had not the wealth of van Baerle, and could not attain the same success. He became envious of his more fortunate rival.
Hitherto, less fortunate in France than in Germany, I have only been known to French readers not thoroughly acquainted with the English language, through occasional, fragmentary and unauthorized translations over which I have had no control, and from which I have derived no advantage. The present translation of my writings was proposed to me by Messrs. L. Hachette and Co. and Ch.
Allons, il est plein. Une vraie sangsue détachée d'un tonneau. Il est chauve, ajouta-t-il en se baissant; c'est un vieillard! Fortunate senex !» Puis dom Claude l'entendit s'éloigner en disant: «C'est égal, la raison est une belle chose, et mon frère l'archidiacre est bien heureux d'être sage et d'avoir de l'argent.»
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