The Devil Who Limped
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.
Cast
Émile Drain
Emperor Napoléon I
Philippe Richard
King Louis-Philippe
Jean Debucourt
Baron of Humboldt
Pierre Bertin
Baron of Nesselrode
Jean Piat
Figaro in “The Barber of Seville”
Robert Favart
Abbot Dupanloup (uncredited)
Sophie Mallet
(uncredited)
Catherine Fonteney
Princess of Chalais (uncredited)
Maurice Teynac
King Charles X
José Torres
Don Juan d'Azcona
Denis d'Inès
Don Basile in “The Barber of Seville”
Léon Walther
Doctor (uncredited)
Jacques Varennes
General de La Fayette
Daniel Ceccaldi
Lackey (uncredited)
Robert Dartois
Count of Remusat (uncredited)
Robert Hossein
Guest in white (uncredited)
Georges Bréhat
(uncredited)
Max Dejean
(uncredited)
Bernard Dhéran
(uncredited)
Georges Rivière
Marquis de la Tour (uncredited)
Georges Grey
Caulaincourt
Sacha Guitry
Talleyrand
Georges Spanelly
Count of Montrond
José Noguéro
Duke of San Carlos
Maurice Escande
Randall
André Brunot
Bartholo in "The Barber of Seville"
Jeanne Daury
Spanish woman (uncredited)
Simone Logeart
(uncredited)
Lana Marconi
Madame Grand
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
Marie-Thérèse Champignon
Maurice Schutz
Voltaire
Henry Laverne
King Louis XVIII
Roger Gaillard
Lord Castelreagh
Howard Vernon
Lord Palmerston
Dominique Davray
(uncredited)
Françoise Engel
Rosine (uncredited)
Michel Lemoine
Ferdinand VI (uncredited)
Michel Nastorg
Lackey (uncredited)