Sacha Guitry as Jean Martin / François Ier / Barras / Napoléon III

Jacqueline Delubac as Françoise Martin / Marie Stuart / Joséphine de Beauharnais

Lyn Harding as John Russell / Henry VIII

Renée Saint-Cyr as Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne

Enrico Glori as Signor Ribaldi

Ernete Zacconi as Le pape Clement VII

Barbara Shaw as Anne Boleyn

Marguerite Moreno as Catherine de Medicis (1860) / L'impératrice Eugénie âgée (1914)

Arletty as La reine abyssine

Marcel Dalio as Le prêtre

Claude Dauphin as Le prisonnier Italien en Abyssinie

Robert Seller as Le prisonnier Français en Abyssinie

Ponzio as Un ouvrier chantant

Andrews Engelmann as James - le voleur

Yvette Pienne as La reine Marie Tudor / La reine Elizabeth I

Raimu as L'industriel du midi

Lisette Lanvin as La petite femme / La reine Victoria jeune

Pierre Juvenet as L'expert

Henri Crémieux as Le commissaire-priseur

Aimé Simon-Girard as Le roi Henry IV

Germaine Aussey as Gabrielle d'Estrées

Simone Renant as Madame Du Barry

Damia as Une femme du peuple

Di Mazzei as Un sans-culotte

Jean-Louis Barrault as Bonaparte jeune

Robert Pizani as Monsieur de Talleyrand

Émile Drain as L'empereur Napoléon Ier (1815)

Huguette Duflos as La reine Hortense

Raymonde Allain as L'impératrice Eugénie (1865)

Violet Farebrother as Une vieille lady

Rosine Deréan as La jeune fille / Catherine d'Aragon

Marie Leconte as La femme éplorée

Pierre Magnier as Le vieux seigneur Français

Cécile Sorel as La Française du Grand Siècle

Lilie Granval as La soprano

Jean Coquelin as Le vieux bourgeois

Gaston Dubosc as Le grand-duc

Pauline Carton as La femme de chambre

Georges Fels as

Humberto Catalano as Spanelli (uncredited)

Marfa d'Hervilly as la danseuse agée