Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard

Dorothy Gish as Louise Girard

Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey

Creighton Hale as Picard

Monte Blue as Danton

Sidney Herbert as Robespierre

Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard

Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard

Frank Puglia as Pierre

Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille

Frank Losee as Count de Linieres

Leslie King as Jacques-Forget-Not

Katherine Emmet as Countess de Linieres

Flora Finch as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)

Louis Wolheim as Executioner (uncredited)

Marcia Harris as Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)

Lee Kohlmar as King Louis XVI (uncredited)

Kate Bruce as Sister Geneviève (uncredited)

Adolph Lestina as The Doctor (uncredited)