Cast
Maurice Escande
Louis XV (uncredited)
Gilbert Gil
Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)
Daniel Ivernel
Cambacérès (uncredited)
Pierre Brasseur
Barras
Gianna Maria Canale
Pauline Borghese
Jean Chevrier
General Duroc
Maurice Teynac
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
Jean Debucourt
Count Joseph Fouché
Bernard Dhéran
Bourrienne (uncredited)
Maria Favella
Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
Dora Doll
'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Daniel Gélin
Napoléon Bonaparte
Danielle Darrieux
Eléonore Denuelle
O.W. Fischer
Karl von Metternich
Dany Robin
Désirée Clary
Robert Manuel
Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
Jean Marchat
General Bertrand (uncredited)
Louis de Funès
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Michèle Morgan
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Madeleine Lebeau
Emilie Pellapra
Lana Marconi
Marie Walewska
Armand Mestral
Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
Serge Reggiani
Lucien Bonaparte
Anne Carrère
Madame Hamelin (uncredited)
Jeanne Boitel
Madame de Dino
Noël Roquevert
General Cambronne
Maria Schell
Marie-Louise d'Autriche
Roland Alexandre
Count of Blanc-Mesnil
Gilbert Bokanowski
Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
Yves Montand
Lefebvre
Roger Pigaut
Marquis de Caulaincourt
Orson Welles
Sir Hudson Lowe
Marie Mansart
Madame Bertrand (uncredited)
Nicole Maurey
Madame Tallien (uncredited)
Paul Dupuis
Neipperg
Jean Gabin
Marshal Jean Lannes
Cosetta Greco
Elisa Baccioli
Luis Mariano
Garat
Jacques Dumesnil
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Raymond Pellegrin
Old Napoléon Bonaparte
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely
Clément Duhour
Marshal Michel Ney
Erich von Stroheim
Ludwig van Beethoven
Henri Vidal
Marshal Joachim Murat
Lucien Baroux
Louis XVIII
Michèle Cordoue
Laetitia
Sacha Guitry
Talleyrand
Jean Marais
Count Montholon
Micheline Presle
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
Jean Danet
General Gourgaud