Narrator
Claude Dauphin
Self (archive footage)
Guillaume Apollinaire
Jean Bouin
Berthe Bovy
Aristide Briand
André Brulé
Marcel Cachin
Andrew Carnegie
Georges Carpentier
Gustave Charpentier
Maurice Chevalier
Buffalo Bill Cody
René Alexandre
Colette
Georges Courteline
Francis de Croisset
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Self - Journalist and politician (archive footage)
Paul de Cassagnac
Wilhelmine de Hollande
Édouard de Max
Self - Dancer and model (archive footage)
Cléo de Mérode
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Théophile Delcassé
Gabrielle Dorziat
Self - Actress and dancer (archive footage)
Régina Badet
Dranem
Self - Author and political activist (archive footage)
Paul Déroulède
Armand Fallières
Félix Galipaux
Self - Bishop of Versailles (archive footage)
Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier
André Gide
Lucien Guitry
Firmin Gémier
Jean Jaurès
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
Maurice Barrès
King Alfonso XIII of Spain
Aristide Maillol
Self - Queen of queens Paris 1901 (archive footage)
Marie Marlin-Poirier
Charles Maurras
Nellie Melba
Self - Press boss and writer (archive footage)
Arthur Meyer
Mistinguett
Claude Monet
Montéhus
Paul Mounet
Julia Bartet
Jean Mounet-Sully
Carolina Otero
Gaston Ouvrard
Emmeline Pankhurst
Charles Pathé
Raymond Poincaré
Polaire
Marcelle Praince
Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen
Marcel Prévost
Sarah Bernhardt
Auguste Renoir
Self - Cyclist (archive footage)
Gaston Rivierre
Gabrielle Robinne
Auguste Rodin
Self - Comedy actress - French (archive footage)
Madeleine Roques
Gabrielle Réjane
Camille Saint-Saëns
Self - Cartoonist (archive footage)
Sem
Eugène Silvain
Cécile Sorel
Henry Bataille
Leo Tolstoy
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Duchesse d'Uzès
Paul Valéry
Pierre Veber
René Viviani
Ferdinand Zecca
Louis Blériot
Self - Singer and actress (archive footage)
Alice Bonheur
Assistant Director
Alain Resnais
Editor
Director
Nicole Védrès
Scenario Writer
Pierre Braunberger