"The Whites and the Blues" is a novel by the famed author of the classic works 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo', Alexandre Dumas. It forms part of his Saint-Hermine Trilogy, and is a prequel to his other novel 'The Companions of Jehu'. The novel serves to fill a significant gap in Dumas' historical sequence to his books and spans the turbulent period from 1793 to 1799, with events picking up shortly after the beheading of Marie Antoinette, and ending with Napoleon's return to France from his Egyptian campaign.