The Whites and the Blues - Alexandre Dumas

	PROLOGUE

	THE PRUSSIANS ON THE RHINE

[I.]	From the Hôtel de la Poste to the Hôtel de la Lanterne	7
[II.]	The Citizeness Teutch	15
[III.]	Euloge Schneider	23
[IV.]	Eugene de Beauharnais	31
[V.]	Mademoiselle de Brumpt	38
[VI.]	Master Nicholas	49
[VII.]	Filial Love, or the Wooden Leg	54
[VIII.]	The Provocation	61
[IX.]	In which Charles is Arrested	67
[X.]	Schneider's Journey	73
[XI.]	The Marriage Proposal	76
[XII.]	Saint-Just	80
[XIII.]	The Wedding of Euloge Schneider	87
[XIV.]	Wishes	92
[XV.]	The Count de Sainte-Hermine	99
[XVI.]	The Foraging Cap	106
[XVII.]	Pichegru	113
[XVIII.]	Charles's Reception	119
[XIX.]	The Spy	125
[XX.]	The Dying Man's Prophecy	132
[XXI.]	The Night Before the Battle	139
[XXII.]	The Battle	144
[XXIII.]	After the Battle	150
[XXIV.]	Citizen Fenouillot, Commercial Traveller for Champagne	155
[XXV.]	Chasseur Falou and Corporal Faraud	161
[XXVI.]	The Prince's Envoy	167
[XXVII.]	Pichegru's Reply	173
[XXVIII.]	The Drum-Head Marriage	181
[XXIX.]	The Prussian Artillery for Six Hundred Francs	190
[XXX.]	The Organ	196

[XXXI.]	In which the Organ-Grinder's Plan Begins to Develop	202
[XXXII.]	The Toast	207
[XXXIII.]	The Order of the Day	212
[XXXIV.]	A Chapter which is but One with the Following Chapter	219
[XXXV.]	In which Abatucci Fulfils the Mission that he has Received from his General, and Charles that which he Received from God	224

	THE THIRTEENTH VENDÉMIAIRE

[I.]	A Bird's-Eye View	230
[II.]	A Glimpse of Paris—The Incroyables	234
[III.]	The Merveilleuses	238
[IV.]	The Sections	242
[V.]	The President of the Section le Peletier	247
[VI.]	Three Leaders	253
[VII.]	General Roundhead and the Chief of the Companions of Jehu	256
[VIII.]	The Man in the Green Coat	261
[IX.]	An Incroyable and a Merveilleuse	265
[X.]	Two Portraits	270
[XI.]	Aspasia's Toilet	275
[XII.]	For which Voltaire and Rousseau are to Blame	278
[XIII.]	The Eleventh Vendémiaire	282
[XIV.]	The Twelfth Vendémiaire	286
[XV.]	The Night of the 12th and the 13th Vendémiaire	290
[XVI.]	The Salon of Madame de Staël, the Swedish Ambassadress	293
[XVII.]	The Hotel of the Rights of Man	306
[XVIII.]	Citizen Bonaparte	310
[XIX.]	Citizen Garat	314
[XX.]	The Outposts	320
[XXI.]	The Steps of Saint-Roch	325
[XXII.]	The Rout	329
[XXIII.]	The Victory	333
[XXIV.]	The Sword of the Vicomte de Beauharnais	336
[XXV.]	The Map of Marengo	340
[XXVI.]	Marie-Rose-Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, Vicomtesse Beauharnais	345
[XXVII.]	Where an Angel Steps a Miracle is Performed	349
[XXVIII.]	The Sibyl	354
[XXIX.]	Fortune-Telling	360
[XXX.]	The Pretended Incroyable	365
[XXXI.]	"Macbeth, thou Shalt be King!"	370
[XXXII.]	The Man of the Future	376


	THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR

[I.]	A Glance at the Provinces	383
[II.]	The Traveller	388
[III.]	The Chartreuse of Seillon	393
[IV.]	The Traitor	398
[V.]	The Judgment	402
[VI.]	Diane of Fargas	407
[VII.]	What was Talked About for More than Three Months in the Little Town of Nantua	412
[VIII.]	A New Companion is Received into the Society of Jehu under the Name of Alcibiades	417
[IX.]	The Comte de Fargas	422
[X.]	The Trouillasse Tower	426
[XI.]	Brother and Sister	431
[XII.]	In which the Reader will Meet some Old Acquaintances	436
[XIII.]	Citizens and Messieurs	441
[XIV.]	The Cause of Citizen-General Bonaparte's Ill-Humor	446
[XV.]	Augereau	452
[XVI.]	The Citizen-Directors	458
[XVII.]	Mademoiselle de Sainte-Amour's Sick-Headache	465
[XVIII.]	The Mission of Mademoiselle de Fargas	470
[XIX.]	The Travellers	476
[XX.]	"The Best of Friends Must Part"	482
[XXI.]	Citizen François Goulin	487
[XXII.]	Colonel Hulot	492
[XXIII.]	The Battle	497
[XXIV.]	Portia	502
[XXV.]	Cadoudal's Idea	507
[XXVI.]	The Road to the Scaffold	513
[XXVII.]	The Execution	518
[XXVIII.]	The Seventh Fructidor	524
[XXIX.]	Jean-Victor Moreau	530
[XXX.]	The Eighteenth Fructidor	536
[XXXI.]	The Temple	542
[XXXII.]	The Exiles	548
[XXXIII.]	The Journey	553
[XXXIV.]	The Embarkation	559
[XXXV.]	Farewell, France!	566


	THE EIGHTH CRUSADE

[I.]	Saint-Jean-d'Acre	572
[II.]	The Prisoners	577
[III.]	The Carnage	583
[IV.]	From Ancient Days to Our Own	588
[V.]	Sidney Smith	594
[VI.]	Ptolemais	601
[VII.]	The Scouts	607
[VIII.]	The Beautiful Daughters of Nazareth	613
[IX.]	The Battle of Nazareth	619
[X.]	Mount Tabor	624
[XI.]	The Bullet Merchant	631
[XII.]	How Citizen Pierre-Claude Faraud was made a Sub-Lieutenant	635
[XIII.]	The Last Assault	640
[XIV.]	The Last Bulletin	644
[XV.]	Vanished Dreams	648
[XVI.]	The Retreat	652
[XVII.]	Wherein we see that Bonaparte's Presentiments did not DeceiveHim	657
[XVIII.]	Aboukir	662
[XIX.]	Departure	668

INTRODUCTION

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."

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION