Jean Desailly

as Self (archive footage)

as Edmond Thibault

as La Tullaye

as Le père

as Père Boudref

as Auguste Roussel

as Ricky Lefèvre

as Stephen Fauldgate

as Louis XIV

as Self

as Ministre

as Evêque d'Angers

as Bourgon-Massenet, directeur de la police

as Mr. de Kesfalva

as Paul

as Le directeur de la PJ

as Charles-Edmond

as Claude, le père de Claudine

as Self

as M. Desvrières

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

as Jean-Pierre Carnavan

as Le narrateur (voix)

as Distinguished Man

as Alfred Rosmer

as Self

as Self

as Philinte

as Le docteur Michel Saint-Rose

as le commissaire

as Narrator (voice)

as Olivier Lenoir

as Narrator

as Monsieur Toledano

as Narrator (voice)

as Le ministre (uncredited)

as Lopakhine

as Edouard

as Count of Linières

as Le professeur Jean Davennes

as Pierre Lachenay

as Dorante

as Mr. Terrenoire

as Morand, le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

as Superintendant Clain

as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard (segment "La luxure")

as Monsieur Duparc - le Père de Bernard

as Jacques Balmeyer

as le baron Adrien de Jonchère

as Dr Francis

as Uhrmacher Rede

as Stéphane Blanchon

as Le narrateur (voice) (segment "L'Adolescence")

as Fred Pellmann

as Mr. Maurice Montbernon

as Judge Lenoir

as le Roi Louis XV

as Commissaire Dodelot

as Self - Host

as Self

as François Schoudler, le fils

as Hero

as Marcel Maurin

as Self - Narrator(voice)

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Self

as Victor Duverger

as Marivaux

as Narrator (voice)

as Jocelyn

as Narrator (voice)

as Max Blachet

as Florestan

as Fred Peloux, dit 'Chéri'

as Marcel Courbois

as Claude Girelle

as Larzac

as Michel Vincent

as Michel

as Jacques de la Bastide

as Jean Pelletier

as Raymond de Noirville

as Karloo

as Jacques Martens - his son

as Frederick

as Kyril

as Bianchon

as Gilles Mauvoisin