as Self (archive footage)

as le narrateur et Louis XI

as Talleyrand

as Louis XIV (older)

as Self in the prologue / Narrator (uncredited)

as Jean Renneval

as Jean-Gaspard Deburau

as Le baron de Saint-Rambert

as Baron of Cantenac

as Michel Desnoyers

as Maître Jean-Pierre Walter

as Talleyrand

as Lucien Guitry et Sacha Guitry

as Narrator (voice)

as Eugène Malibran

as François

as Napoléon 1er

as Jean Lécuyer

as Le Professeur, Louis XV, Ludovic, Jean-Louis et Napoléon III

as Man Leaving Hotel in France (uncredited)

as Philippe de Morannes

as Désiré

as Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III

as Le Général Pierre Cambronne

as L'Amant

as Charles Bellanger

as le tricheur

as Le Docteur Marcelin

as Claude

as Louis Pasteur

as Self

as Mancha y Zaragosa

as Jean et Jacques Sarrazin