Besetzung (79)
Claude DauphinLe narrateurGuillaume ApollinaireSelf (archive footage)
René AlexandreSelf (archive footage)Régina BadetSelf - actrice et danseuse (archive footage)Maurice BarrèsSelf (archive footage)Julia BartetSelf (archive footage)
Sarah BernhardtSelf (archive footage)Henry BatailleSelf (archive footage)Louis BlériotSelf (archive footage)Alice BonheurSelf - chanteuse et actrice (archive footage)Jean BouinSelf (archive footage)
Berthe BovySelf (archive footage)Aristide BriandSelf (archive footage)André BruléSelf (archive footage)
Marcel CachinSelf (archive footage)Andrew CarnegieSelf (archive footage)
Georges CarpentierSelf (archive footage)Gustave CharpentierSelf (archive footage)
Maurice ChevalierSelf (archive footage)Buffalo Bill CodySelf (archive footage) (as William F. Cody)
ColetteSelf (archive footage)Georges CourtelineSelf (archive footage)Francis de CroissetSelf (archive footage)Paul de CassagnacSelf - journaliste et homme politique (archive footage)
Gabriele D'AnnunzioSelf (archive footage)Wilhelmine de HollandeSelf (archive footage)
Édouard de MaxSelf (archive footage)Cléo de MérodeSelf - danseuse et modèle (archive footage)Théophile DelcasséSelf - homme politique (archive footage)
Gabrielle DorziatSelf (archive footage)
DranemSelf (archive footage)Paul DéroulèdeSelf - auteur et militant politique (archive footage)Armand FallièresSelf (archive footage)Félix GalipauxSelf (archive footage)Charles-Henri-Célestin GibierSelf - évêque de Versailles (archive footage)André GideSelf (archive footage)Lucien GuitrySelf (archive footage)Firmin GémierSelf (archive footage)
Emperor Wilhelm II of GermanySelf (archive footage) (as Emperor Wilhelm II)
Jean JaurèsSelf (archive footage)
King Alfonso XIII of SpainSelf (archive footage)Aristide MaillolSelf (archive footage)Marie Marlin-PoirierSelf - reine des reines de Paris 1901 (archive footage)Charles MaurrasSelf (archive footage)Nellie MelbaSelf (archive footage)
MistinguettSelf (archive footage)Arthur MeyerSelf - patron de presse et écrivain (archive footage)
Claude MonetSelf (archive footage)MontéhusSelf (archive footage)
Paul MounetSelf (archive footage)Jean Mounet-SullySelf (archive footage)Carolina OteroSelf (archive footage)Gaston OuvrardSelf (archive footage)Emmeline PankhurstSelf (archive footage)
Charles PathéSelf (archive footage)Raymond PoincaréSelf (archive footage)PolaireSelf (archive footage)
Marcelle PrainceSelf (archive footage)
Wilhelm Prinz von PreußenSelf (archive footage)Marcel PrévostSelf (archive footage)Auguste RenoirSelf (archive footage)Gaston RivierreSelf - coureur cycliste (archive footage)
Gabrielle RobinneSelf (archive footage)Auguste RodinSelf (archive footage)Madeleine RoquesSelf - actrice de la Comédie-Française (archive footage)
Gabrielle RéjaneSelf (archive footage)SemSelf - caricaturiste (archive footage)
Camille Saint-SaënsSelf (archive footage)
Eugène SilvainSelf (archive footage)Cécile SorelSelf (archive footage)
Leo TolstoySelf (archive footage) (as Leo Tolstoy)Lev Tolstoy
Czar Nicholas II of RussiaSelf (archive footage)Duchesse d'UzèsSelf (archive footage)
Paul ValérySelf (archive footage)Pierre VeberSelf (archive footage)René VivianiSelf (archive footage)
Monty WoolleyNarrator, US version (voice)
Ferdinand ZeccaSelf (archive footage)