The Whites and the Blues; The First Republic; The Polish Spy; The Prussians on the Rhine + The 13th Vendémaire + The 18th Fructidor
roman/novel, pub:1867-1868, action:1793-1799
Prequel to Les Compagnons de Jéhu, drawn from the work of the historian Charles Nodier. Covers the terror, the Convention, the Directory, and the rise of Napoleon. Made into a play. Contains The Eighth Crusade.
Oeuvres/Related Works The Whites and the Blues - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, n.d., The Works of Alexandre Dumas in Thirty Volumes (vol. 30), blue cloth, gilt spine The Whites and the Blues I - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, n.d., The Works of Alexandre Dumas (vol. 1), black embossed cloth, gilt spine The Whites and the Blues II - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, n.d., The Works of Alexandre Dumas (vol. 2), black embossed cloth, gilt spine
From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Though written later, this story is really a precedent to "Les Compagnons de Jéhu," and its second and third parts especially connect closely with it
It bore the dedication: "Mon illustre ami et collaborateur Charles Nodier.—J'ai dit COLLABORATEUR parce que l'on se donnerait la peine d'en chercher un autre, et que ce serait peine perdue!—Alex. Dumas."—(My illustrious friend and collaborator, Charles Nodier. I say COLLABORATOR that people may not give themselves the trouble to seek for another, which would be lost effort!-—Alex. Dumas.")
It consists of three distinct parts: "The Prussians on the Rhine," "The 13th Vendémiaire" and "The 18th Fructidor." The first deals with the Revolutionary wars and the incident of Euloge Schneider ; the second with Paris and the rise of Bonaparte ; the third with the Companions of Jéhu and the plots against the government. Period 1793-99.
The first part ran through a journal named "Les Nouvelles" (not that referred to on page 412), with great success. Encouraged, Dumas wrote the two following parts, and also "La Huitième Croisade," which ran through "La Petite Presse."
Original edition: Paris, Lévy, 3 vols., 1867-68.
Now fills three volumes in the standard Calmann-Lévy edition.
In Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré" it is in Vol. XVI.
