Claude Dauphin as Narrator

Guillaume Apollinaire as Self (archive footage)

René Alexandre as Self (archive footage)

Régina Badet as Self - Actress and dancer (archive footage)

Maurice Barrès as Self (archive footage)

Julia Bartet as Self (archive footage)

Sarah Bernhardt as Self (archive footage)

Henry Bataille as Self (archive footage)

Louis Blériot as Self (archive footage)

Alice Bonheur as Self - Singer and actress (archive footage)

Jean Bouin as Self (archive footage)

Berthe Bovy as Self (archive footage)

Aristide Briand as Self (archive footage)

André Brulé as Self (archive footage)

Marcel Cachin as Self (archive footage)

Andrew Carnegie as Self (archive footage)

Georges Carpentier as Self (archive footage)

Gustave Charpentier as Self (archive footage)

Maurice Chevalier as Self (archive footage)

Buffalo Bill Cody as Self (archive footage)

Colette as Self (archive footage)

Georges Courteline as Self (archive footage)

Francis de Croisset as Self (archive footage)

Gabriele D'Annunzio as Self (archive footage)

Paul de Cassagnac as Self - Journalist and politician (archive footage)

Wilhelmine de Hollande as Self (archive footage)

Édouard de Max as Self (archive footage)

Cléo de Mérode as Self - Dancer and model (archive footage)

Théophile Delcassé as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Gabrielle Dorziat as Self (archive footage)

Dranem as Self (archive footage)

Paul Déroulède as Self - Author and political activist (archive footage)

Armand Fallières as Self (archive footage)

Félix Galipaux as Self (archive footage)

Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier as Self - Bishop of Versailles (archive footage)

André Gide as Self (archive footage)

Lucien Guitry as Self (archive footage)

Firmin Gémier as Self (archive footage)

Jean Jaurès as Self (archive footage)

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany as Self (archive footage)

King Alfonso XIII of Spain as Self (archive footage)

Aristide Maillol as Self (archive footage)

Marie Marlin-Poirier as Self - Queen of queens Paris 1901 (archive footage)

Charles Maurras as Self (archive footage)

Nellie Melba as Self (archive footage)

Arthur Meyer as Self - Press boss and writer (archive footage)

Mistinguett as Self (archive footage)

Claude Monet as Self (archive footage)

Montéhus as Self (archive footage)

Paul Mounet as Self (archive footage)

Jean Mounet-Sully as Self (archive footage)

Carolina Otero as Self (archive footage)

Gaston Ouvrard as Self (archive footage)

Emmeline Pankhurst as Self (archive footage)

Charles Pathé as Self (archive footage)

Raymond Poincaré as Self (archive footage)

Polaire as Self (archive footage)

Marcelle Praince as Self (archive footage)

Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen as Self (archive footage)

Marcel Prévost as Self (archive footage)

Auguste Renoir as Self (archive footage)

Gaston Rivierre as Self - Cyclist (archive footage)

Gabrielle Robinne as Self (archive footage)

Auguste Rodin as Self (archive footage)

Madeleine Roques as Self - Comedy actress - French (archive footage)

Gabrielle Réjane as Self (archive footage)

Camille Saint-Saëns as Self (archive footage)

Sem as Self - Cartoonist (archive footage)

Eugène Silvain as Self (archive footage)

Cécile Sorel as Self (archive footage)

Leo Tolstoy as Self (archive footage)

Czar Nicholas II of Russia as Self (archive footage)

Duchesse d'Uzès as Self (archive footage)

Paul Valéry as Self (archive footage)

Pierre Veber as Self (archive footage)

René Viviani as Self (archive footage)

Ferdinand Zecca as Self (archive footage)