Alexandre Dumas 
The Whites and the Blues [PDF ebook] 

This book is the second of the Napoleon Novels, first being The Companions of Jehu. It is as much as a prequel as a sequel to that novel. Dumas is one of those novelist that can make the pages fly by. Battles, romance, treachery and fictional characters woven among historical characters make Dumas one of the best historical novelist of the eighteen hundreds.
During the French Revolution, young Charles is sent to be tutored by Euloge Schneider. But Schneider has become the Public Prosecutor for the town, and is now known as a bloodthirsty monster. Only Saint Just, the Angel of Death, can save the day. The last of Dumas's plays to be performed during his lifetime, The Whites and the Blues is an undiscovered masterpiece of suspense.