The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
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Sacha Guitry as Talleyrand
Lana Marconi as Madame Grand
Émile Drain as Emperor Napoléon I
Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Marie-Thérèse Champignon
Pauline Carton as Palmist
Renée Devillers as Duchess of Dino
Maurice Schutz as Voltaire
Henry Laverne as King Louis XVIII
Maurice Teynac as King Charles X
Philippe Richard as King Louis-Philippe
Georges Spanelly as Count of Montrond
Georges Grey as Caulaincourt
José Noguéro as Duke of San Carlos
Maurice Escande as Randall
Jean Debucourt as Baron of Humboldt
Pierre Bertin as Baron of Nesselrode
Roger Gaillard as Lord Castelreagh
André Randall as Lord Grey
Howard Vernon as Lord Palmerston
Jacques Varennes as General de La Fayette
José Torres as Don Juan d'Azcona
Denis d'Inès as Don Basile in “The Barber of Seville”
Jean Piat as Figaro in “The Barber of Seville”
André Brunot as Bartholo in "The Barber of Seville"
Daniel Ceccaldi as Lackey (uncredited)
Catherine Fonteney as Princess of Chalais (uncredited)
Anne Campion as Pauline de Dino (uncredited)
Renée Bouzy as (uncredited)
Georges Bréhat as (uncredited)
Robert Dartois as Count of Remusat (uncredited)
Jeanne Daury as Spanish woman (uncredited)
Dominique Davray as (uncredited)
Max Dejean as (uncredited)
Philippe Derevel as (uncredited)
Bernard Dhéran as (uncredited)
Françoise Engel as Rosine (uncredited)
Robert Favart as Abbot Dupanloup (uncredited)
Robert Hossein as Guest in white (uncredited)
Yvonne Hébert as Companion (uncredited)
Pierre Lecocq as Count of Roederer (uncredited)
Michel Lemoine as Ferdinand VI (uncredited)
Simone Logeart as (uncredited)
Sophie Mallet as (uncredited)
Michel Nastorg as Lackey (uncredited)
Georges Rivière as Marquis de la Tour (uncredited)
Robert Seller as Prince de Polignac (uncredited)
Léon Walther as Doctor (uncredited)
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