Daniel Gélin as Napoléon Bonaparte

Michèle Morgan as Joséphine de Beauharnais

Raymond Pellegrin as Old Napoléon Bonaparte

Sacha Guitry as Talleyrand

Jean-Pierre Aumont as Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely

Jeanne Boitel as Madame de Dino

Gilbert Bokanowski as Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)

Pierre Brasseur as Barras

Gianna Maria Canale as Pauline Borghese

Jean Chevrier as General Duroc

Danielle Darrieux as Eléonore Denuelle

Clément Duhour as Marshal Michel Ney

Jacques Dumesnil as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

O.W. Fischer as Karl von Metternich

Jean Gabin as Marshal Jean Lannes

Cosetta Greco as Elisa Baccioli

Madeleine Lebeau as Emilie Pellapra

Jean Marais as Count Montholon

Lana Marconi as Marie Walewska

Luis Mariano as Garat

Armand Mestral as Marshal Nicolas Oudinot

Yves Montand as Lefebvre

Patachou as Madame Sans-Gêne

Roger Pigaut as Marquis de Caulaincourt

Micheline Presle as Queen Hortense de Beauharnais

Serge Reggiani as Lucien Bonaparte

Dany Robin as Désirée Clary

Noël Roquevert as General Cambronne

Maria Schell as Marie-Louise d'Autriche

Erich von Stroheim as Ludwig van Beethoven

Maurice Teynac as Count Emmanuel de Las Cases

Henri Vidal as Marshal Joachim Murat

Orson Welles as Sir Hudson Lowe

Roland Alexandre as Count of Blanc-Mesnil

Lucien Baroux as Louis XVIII

Pauline Carton as An innkeeper

Michèle Cordoue as Laetitia

Jean Danet as General Gourgaud

Jean Debucourt as Count Joseph Fouché

Bernard Dhéran as Bourrienne (uncredited)

Maurice Escande as Louis XV (uncredited)

Maria Favella as Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)

Gilbert Gil as Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)

Daniel Ivernel as Cambacérès (uncredited)

Marie Mansart as Madame Bertrand (uncredited)

Robert Manuel as Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)

Jean Marchat as General Bertrand (uncredited)

Nicole Maurey as Madame Tallien (uncredited)

Anne Carrère as Madame Hamelin (uncredited)

Dora Doll as 'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)

Louis de Funès as Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)

Pierre Would as Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)

Paul Dupuis as Neipperg