title: Overkill: The Vatican Trial of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Sj
author: Niels de Terra
description: Niels de Terra was born in New York City just prior to the outbreak of WW 2. The son of the well-known geologist and archaeologist Helmut de Terra, Niels was schooled in New York and Switzerland, and later obtained an honors degree from the London School of Economic. His father was a personal friend of Teilhard de Chardin, with the two participating in expeditions to the Himalayas and Burma together. While living in Queretaro, Mexico, Niels conceived the idea for this graphic novel to better explain the thoughts and cosmology of Teilhard in a more digestible and engaging format. He worked with a local artist to complete the artwork for the novel over a two-year period.
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  # The Black Tulip
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Alexandre Dumas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter 1. A Grateful People
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  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 broth