Charles Berling as Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy

Jean Rochefort as Le Marquis de Bellegarde

Fanny Ardant as Madame de Blayac

Judith Godrèche as Mathilde de Bellegarde

Bernard Giraudeau as L'Abbée de Vilecourt

Bernard Dhéran as Montalieri

Carlo Brandt as Milletail

Jacques Mathou as Abbé de l'Épée

Urbain Cancelier as Louis XVI

Albert Delpy as Baron de Guéret

Bruno Zanardi as Paul

Marie Pillet as Charlotte

Jacques Roman as Chevernoy

Philippe Magnan as Baron de Malenval

Maurice Chevit as Le notaire

Jacques François Zeller as Maurepas

Gérard Hardy as Victor

Marc Berman as Duc de Guines

Philippe du Janerand as Le généalogiste

Claude Dereppe as Mgr d'Artimont

Isabelle Spade as Baronne de Boisjoli

Isabelle Petit-Jacques as Baronne d'Oberkirchner

Nathalie Mann as Comtesse de Blancfagot

Étienne Draber as Vicomte du Closlabbe

Fabrice Eberhard as Chevalier de St Tronchain

Stéphane Fourmond as Marquis de Carmes

Jean-Jacques Le Vessier as Vicomte de Sabran

Lucien Pascal as Monsieur de Blayac

Nicolas Chagrin as Lord Bolingbroke

Fabien Béhar as Secrétaire du roi

Mirabelle Kirkland as Marie-Antoinette

Marie Llano as Mère de Léonard

Antonin Lebas-Joly as Léonard

Didier Abot as Le curé

Julien Bukowski as Gentilhomme

José Fumanal as L'Officier Duel

Sylvie Herbert as Mère du Ponceludon

Alain Hocine as Le joueur

Clémentine Buxtorf as La soeur

Boris Napes as Le peintre

Gérard Sergue as Le voleur

Laurent Valo as Simon

Claire Garguier as Thérèse

Marine Guez as La cantatrice