Cast
Armand Mestral
Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
Micheline Presle
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
Maria Schell
Marie-Louise d'Autriche
Maria Favella
Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
Sacha Guitry
Talleyrand
Jeanne Boitel
Madame de Dino
Roger Pigaut
Marquis de Caulaincourt
Daniel Ivernel
Cambacérès (uncredited)
Jean Marchat
General Bertrand (uncredited)
Paul Dupuis
Neipperg
Daniel Gélin
Napoléon Bonaparte
O.W. Fischer
Karl von Metternich
Jean Marais
Count Montholon
Luis Mariano
Garat
Serge Reggiani
Lucien Bonaparte
Lucien Baroux
Louis XVIII
Jean Danet
General Gourgaud
Gianna Maria Canale
Pauline Borghese
Clément Duhour
Marshal Michel Ney
Cosetta Greco
Elisa Baccioli
Yves Montand
Lefebvre
Noël Roquevert
General Cambronne
Erich von Stroheim
Ludwig van Beethoven
Henri Vidal
Marshal Joachim Murat
Jean Debucourt
Count Joseph Fouché
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely
Gilbert Bokanowski
Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
Pierre Brasseur
Barras
Jean Chevrier
General Duroc
Jean Gabin
Marshal Jean Lannes
Madeleine Lebeau
Emilie Pellapra
Roland Alexandre
Count of Blanc-Mesnil
Michèle Cordoue
Laetitia
Danielle Darrieux
Eléonore Denuelle
Jacques Dumesnil
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Maurice Teynac
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
Maurice Escande
Louis XV (uncredited)
Gilbert Gil
Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)
Marie Mansart
Madame Bertrand (uncredited)
Nicole Maurey
Madame Tallien (uncredited)
Anne Carrère
Madame Hamelin (uncredited)
Patachou
Madame Sans-Gêne
أورسن ويلز
Sir Hudson Lowe
Bernard Dhéran
Bourrienne (uncredited)
Robert Manuel
Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
Dora Doll
'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Louis de Funès
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Dany Robin
Désirée Clary
Michèle Morgan
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Raymond Pellegrin
Old Napoléon Bonaparte
Lana Marconi
Marie Walewska