le narrateur et Louis XI

Sacha Guitry

Directing

Antoine Allègre

Louis de Funès

Acting

François Ier

Jean Marais

Acting

Latude

Robert Lamoureux

Acting

Paulus

Andrex

Acting

l’Impératrice Eugénie

Renée Saint-Cyr

Acting

la duchesse de Bassano

Françoise Arnoul

Acting

Agnès Sorel

Danielle Darrieux

Acting

Rose Bertin

Sophie Desmarets

Acting

Aristide Bruant

Clément Duhour

Acting

La Passementière

Odette Joyeux

Acting

Pierre Broussel

Pierre Larquey

Acting

la reine Marie-Antoinette

Lana Marconi

Acting

Gabrielle d'Estrées

Michèle Morgan

Acting

la bouquiniste

Pauline Carton

Acting

Pierre Would

Acting

Mme Geoffrin / Sarah Bernhardt

Jeanne Boitel

Acting

Louis XVI

Gilbert Bokanowski

Acting

Un Cocher

Julien Carette

Acting

Henri IV / Firmin

Jean Martinelli

Acting

Marie-Antoinette

Lana Marconi

Acting

Un Médecin

Jean Parédès

Acting

Comtesse de G...

Gisèle Pascal

Acting

Le Trouvère

Gérard Philipe

Acting

Marquise de V...

Simone Renant

Acting

L'Impératrice Eugènie

Renée Saint-Cyr

Acting

Un Gardien de Musée

Jean Tissier

Acting

Verlaine

Antoine Balpêtré

Acting

Aubineau

René Blancard

Acting

Beaumarchais

Aimé Clariond

Acting

Charles VII

Paul Colline

Writing

Madame d'Epinay

Suzanne Dantès

Acting

Philippe de Comynes

Jean Debucourt

Acting

Monsieur de la Personne

Jean-Jacques Delbo

Acting

Voltaire jeune

Bernard Dhéran

Acting

Fontenelle

Denis d'Inès

Acting

Un dominicain

Henri Doublier

Acting

Victor Hugo

Émile Drain

Acting

Un manifestant

Pierre Dudan

Acting

Richelieu

Jacques Dumesnil

Acting

La Journaliste

Catherine Erard

Acting

Voltaire

Jacques de Féraudy

Acting

Le Baron de Grimm

Maurice Escande

Acting

Le Deuxième Visiteur

Michel François

Acting

L'Aubergiste

Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Acting

Molière

Gilbert Gil

Acting

Le Premier Visiteur

François Guérin

Acting

Anne de Savoie

Marguerite Jamois

Acting

Le Premier Royaliste

Roland Lesaffre

Acting

Flaubert

Robert Manuel

Acting

Gouverneur Jourdan

Jacques Morel

Acting

Montesquieu

Lucien Nat

Acting

Anne d'Autriche

Claude Nollier

Acting

Un Moine

Pierre Palau

Acting

Le Comte d'Orgeix

Jean Pâqui

Acting

Une Dame

Simone Paris

Acting

La Centenaire

Marguerite Pierry

Acting

La Reine Eléonore

Jacqueline Plessis

Acting

La Princesse d'Essling

Odile Rodin

Acting

Catherine de Médicis jeune

Claude Sylvain

Acting

François Villon

Pierre Vaneck

Acting

Henri III

Jean Weber

Acting

Self - Le prince des poètes

Paul Fort

Acting

Self - Painter

Maurice Utrillo

Acting

La Baronne de Pierre

Sirena Adgemova

Acting

Jean-Marc Anthony

Acting

Tristan l'Hermitte / Fouquier-Tinville

Fernand Bellan

Acting

Henri Belly

Acting

Roland Bourdin

Acting

Henri Bosc

Acting

Monsieur Duval

Alain Bouvette

Acting

Wladimir Brasco

Acting

Laurent Capelli

Acting

Brigitte Segui de Carreras

Acting

Sully

André Chanu

Acting

René Charles

Acting

Pierre Darçay

Acting

Yvette Guilbert

Micheline Dax

Acting

Fouquier-Tinville

Paul Demange

Acting

Un Garde

Jacques Derives

Acting

Catherine de Médicis

Germaine Dermoz

Acting

Un Moine

Jean Dunot

Acting

René Dupuy

Acting

Béranger

Albert Duvaleix

Acting

Un Cocher

Jim Gérald

Acting

La Provinciale

Lucienne Granier

Acting

La Marquise de Sévigné

Gisèle Grandpré

Acting

Marguerite de Valois

Janine Grenet

Acting

Une Amoureuse

Françoise Jacquier

Acting

Pierre Jadoux

Acting

Diane de Poitiers

Ariane Lancell

Acting

René Lefèvre-Bel

Acting

Maria Lopez

Acting

Marcel Paul

Marcel Lupovici

Acting

Un Photographe

Pierre Massimi

Acting

Paul Tabout

Albert Médina

Acting

Annie Monnier

Acting

Un Passant

Hubert Noël

Acting

La Duchesse d'Etampes

Nadine Olivier

Acting

Karsavina

Xénia Palley

Acting

Léna Pastor

Acting

Josette Privat

Acting

Un Gardien de Prison

Jacques Ralph

Acting

Jean-François Rémi

Acting

Louis-Philippe

Philippe Richard

Acting

Denis Diderot

André Roanne

Acting

Une Jolie Femme

Catherine Romane

Acting

Madeleine Rousset

Acting

Un Officier de Police

Roger Royer

Acting

Un Officier de Police

Serge Sauvion

Acting

Bourgoin

Georges Spanelly

Acting

Madame Denis

Alice Tissot

Acting

La Comtesse de Malazet

Irène Tunc

Acting

Coitier

Pierre-Jean Vaillard

Acting

Scherer

Jacques Varennes

Acting

Madame Lefebvre - la mère de Firmin

Jeanne Véniat

Acting

Arsène (uncredited)

Alain Saury

Acting