Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They are ballerinas at the Opera de Paris and very much courted by wealthy, elegant men. They will manage to climb in the society of their time, despite parents set on respectability but also attracted by money.
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Saturnin Fabre as Horace Cardinal
Véra Norman as Virginie Cardinal
Denise Grey as Mrs. Cardinal
Jacques Castelot as The Baron of Glaïeuls
Claude Nicot as Gaspard
Sophie Leclair as Pauline Cardinal
Jacques Meyran as Giuseppe Chamborini, singing master
Henri Niel as The concierge
Jacqueline Noëlle as Anais, a dancer
Paul Azaïs as The stage manager
Jean Tissier as Marquis Alberto de Cavalcanti
Jacques Beauvais as The coachman (uncredited)
Gérard Buhr as (uncredited)
Jacqueline Guelis as (uncredited)
René Hell as The Bonapartist (uncredited)
Charles Lemontier as Jacquelin (uncredited)
Albert Michel as The Gendarme (uncredited)
Georges Paulais as The porter (uncredited)
Jacqueline Rivière as The diva (uncredited)
Georges Sauval as The shopkeeper (uncredited)
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