*The trilogy is also listed under the titles "Napoleonic Era" "Revolution" "Teammates of Iegue"
“White and Blue” is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, originally published as a serial in the newspapers “Le Mousquetaire” and “La Petite Presse” in 1867.
This novel is the first volume of the trilogy “Saint-Ermin,” alongside “Teammates of Iegue” (the second volume, published ten years earlier, in 1857) and “Chevalier de Saint-Ermin” (the last, unfinished volume, published two years later, in 1869).
December 1793, the second year of the French Republic. The homeland is in danger! Strasbourg—the “city of дорогих дорог” (city of precious)—Europe’s main crossroads—is in terrible confusion. The enemy is at the gates. Prussians on the Rhine. Not the best time chose Charles’s father when he sent his son to Strasbourg to learn Greek. The teenager taking his first steps into big life finds himself in the house of a strange tutor surrounded by a whole detachment of bodyguards bearing the name—“hussars of death.” “White and Blue” is a dramatic story of the end of the 18th century, in which a young artilleryman who very quickly becomes General Napoleon Bonaparte plays a significant role.
The book covers a large period of time, from the Terror era to the “crusade” in Egypt, and is the first in a tetralogy about the Saint-Ermin family—desperate aristocrats who passed down hereditary blood feuds.
The novel is divided into four parts
Prussians on the Rhine;
13th Vendémiaire;
18th Fructidor;
Eighth Crusade.