The Whites and the Blues
In the preface of The Companions of Jehu I told why that romance had been written; and those who have read it cannot fail to have seen where I borrowed from Nodier in the description of the execution, of which he was an ocular witness. In short, I borrowed my dénouement from him.
Now The Whites and the Blues, being a continuation of The Companions of Jehu, my readers will not be astonished if I again borrow from Nodier for the beginning of my story.
During his long illness, which was simply a gradual decay of physical and vital strength, I was one of his most constant visitors; and as, on account of his incessant labors, he had not had the time to read my books relating to the epoch with which he was so familiar, he sent for the seven or eight hundred volumes while he was ill and confined to his bed, and read them eagerly.
In proportion as he became better acquainted with my methods, his literary confidence in me increased, until, when I spoke to him of his own work, he would reply: Oh! I have never had time to do more than outline rough drafts of events which, if you had possessed the facts, would have furnished you with material for ten volumes, instead of the two hundred lines that I have made of them.
And thus it was that he came to relate the four pages which served me as the foundation for the three volumes of The Companions of Jehu, and the anecdote of Euloge Schneider, from which he declared that I would have made at least ten.
But, he continued, some day, my friend, you will write them, and if it is true that any part of us survives, I shall rejoice yonder over your success and shall feel that I have had some share in it.
Well, I have written The Companions of Jehu, and since the great success which it achieved I have been tormented with a desire to write a great romance, entitled The Whites and the Blues, from what he told me, taking my point of departure for this new book from Nodier's Episodes de la Révolution, as I did the motive for a former one from his Réaction Thermidorienne.
Alexandre Dumas
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THE WORKS OF
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
IN THIRTY VOLUMES
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE WHITES AND THE BLUES
FROM THE HÔTEL DE LA POSTE TO THE HÔTEL DE LA LANTERNE
THE CITIZENESS TEUTCH
EULOGE SCHNEIDER
EUGENE DE BEAUHARNAIS
MADEMOISELLE DE BRUMPT
MASTER NICHOLAS
FILIAL LOVE, OR THE WOODEN LEG
THE PROVOCATION
IN WHICH CHARLES IS ARRESTED
SCHNEIDER'S JOURNEY
THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
SAINT-JUST
THE WEDDING OF EULOGE SCHNEIDER
WISHES
THE COUNT DE SAINTE-HERMINE
THE FORAGING CAP
PICHEGRU
CHARLES'S RECEPTION
THE SPY
THE DYING MAN'S PROPHECY
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE
THE BATTLE
AFTER THE BATTLE
CITIZEN FENOUILLOT, COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER FOR CHAMPAGNE
CHASSEUR FALOU AND CORPORAL FARAUD
THE PRINCE'S ENVOY
PICHEGRU'S REPLY
THE DRUM-HEAD MARRIAGE
THE PRUSSIAN ARTILLERY FOR SIX HUNDRED FRANCS
THE ORGAN
IN WHICH THE ORGAN-GRINDER'S PLAN BEGINS TO DEVELOP
THE TOAST
THE ORDER OF THE DAY
A CHAPTER WHICH IS BUT ONE WITH THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER
IN WHICH ABATUCCI FULFILS THE MISSION THAT HE HAS RECEIVED FROM HIS GENERAL, AND CHARLES THAT WHICH HE RECEIVED FROM GOD
THE THIRTEENTH VENDÉMIAIRE
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW
A GLIMPSE OF PARIS—THE INCROYABLES
THE MERVEILLEUSES
THE SECTIONS
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECTION LE PELETIER
THREE LEADERS
GENERAL ROUNDHEAD AND THE CHIEF OF THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU
THE MAN IN THE GREEN COAT
AN INCROYABLE AND A MERVEILLEUSE
TWO PORTRAITS
ASPASIA'S TOILET
FOR WHICH VOLTAIRE AND ROUSSEAU ARE TO BLAME
THE ELEVENTH VENDÉMIAIRE
THE TWELFTH VENDÉMIAIRE
THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH AND THE 13TH VENDÉMIAIRE
THE SALON OF MADAME DE STAËL, THE SWEDISH AMBASSADRESS
THE HOTEL OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN
CITIZEN BONAPARTE
CITIZEN GARAT
THE OUTPOSTS
THE STEPS OF SAINT-ROCH
THE ROUT
THE VICTORY
THE SWORD OF THE VICOMTE DE BEAUHARNAIS
THE MAP OF MARENGO
MARIE-ROSE-JOSEPHINE TASCHER DE LA PAGERIE, VICOMTESSE BEAUHARNAIS
WHERE AN ANGEL STEPS A MIRACLE IS PERFORMED
THE SIBYL
FORTUNE-TELLING
THE PRETENDED INCROYABLE
"MACBETH, THOU SHALT BE KING!"
THE MAN OF THE FUTURE
THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR
A GLANCE AT THE PROVINCES
THE TRAVELLER
THE CHARTREUSE OF SEILLON
THE TRAITOR
THE JUDGMENT
DIANE DE FARGAS
WHAT WAS TALKED ABOUT FOR MORE THAN THREE MONTHS IN THE LITTLE TOWN OF NANTUA
A NEW COMPANION IS RECEIVED INTO THE SOCIETY OF JEHU UNDER THE NAME OF ALCIBIADES
THE COMTE DE FARGAS
THE TROUILLASSE TOWER
BROTHER AND SISTER
IN WHICH THE READER WILL MEET SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES
CITIZENS AND MESSIEURS
THE CAUSE OF CITIZEN-GENERAL BONAPARTE'S ILL-HUMOR
AUGEREAU
THE CITIZEN-DIRECTORS
MADEMOISELLE DE SAINTE-AMOUR'S SICK-HEADACHE
THE MISSION OF MADEMOISELLE DE FARGAS
THE TRAVELLERS
"THE BEST OF FRIENDS MUST PART"
CITIZEN FRANÇOIS GOULIN
COLONEL HULOT
THE BATTLE
PORTIA
CADOUDAL'S IDEA
THE ROAD TO THE SCAFFOLD
THE EXECUTION
THE SEVENTH FRUCTIDOR
JEAN-VICTOR MOREAU
THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR
THE TEMPLE
THE EXILES
THE JOURNEY
THE EMBARKATION
FAREWELL, FRANCE!
THE EIGHTH CRUSADE
SAINT-JEAN-D'ACRE
THE PRISONERS
THE CARNAGE
FROM ANCIENT DAYS TO OUR OWN
SIDNEY SMITH
PTOLEMAIS
THE SCOUTS
THE BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS OF NAZARETH
THE BATTLE OF NAZARETH
MOUNT TABOR
THE BULLET MERCHANT
HOW CITIZEN PIERRE-CLAUDE FARAUD WAS MADE A SUB-LIEUTENANT
THE LAST ASSAULT
THE LAST BULLETIN
VANISHED DREAMS
THE RETREAT
WHEREIN WE SEE THAT BONAPARTE'S PRESENTIMENTS DID NOT DECEIVE HIM
ABOUKIR
DEPARTURE