Daniel Gélin

Napoléon Bonaparte

Michèle Morgan

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Raymond Pellegrin

Old Napoléon Bonaparte

Sacha Guitry

Talleyrand

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely

Jeanne Boitel

Madame de Dino

Gilbert Bokanowski

Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)

Pierre Brasseur

Barras

Gianna Maria Canale

Pauline Borghese

Jean Chevrier

General Duroc

Danielle Darrieux

Eléonore Denuelle

Clément Duhour

Marshal Michel Ney

Jacques Dumesnil

Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

O.W. Fischer

Karl von Metternich

Jean Gabin

Marshal Jean Lannes

Cosetta Greco

Elisa Baccioli

Madeleine Lebeau

Emilie Pellapra

Jean Marais

Count Montholon

Lana Marconi

Marie Walewska

Luis Mariano

Garat

Armand Mestral

Marshal Nicolas Oudinot

Yves Montand

Lefebvre

Patachou

Madame Sans-Gêne

Roger Pigaut

Marquis de Caulaincourt

Micheline Presle

Queen Hortense de Beauharnais

Serge Reggiani

Lucien Bonaparte

Dany Robin

Désirée Clary

Noël Roquevert

General Cambronne

Maria Schell

Marie-Louise d'Autriche

Erich von Stroheim

Ludwig van Beethoven

Maurice Teynac

Count Emmanuel de Las Cases

Henri Vidal

Marshal Joachim Murat

Orson Welles

Sir Hudson Lowe

Roland Alexandre

Count of Blanc-Mesnil

Lucien Baroux

Louis XVIII

Pauline Carton

An innkeeper

Michèle Cordoue

Laetitia

Jean Danet

General Gourgaud

Jean Debucourt

Count Joseph Fouché

Bernard Dhéran

Bourrienne (uncredited)

Maurice Escande

Louis XV (uncredited)

Maria Favella

Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)

Gilbert Gil

Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)

Daniel Ivernel

Cambacérès (uncredited)

Marie Mansart

Madame Bertrand (uncredited)

Robert Manuel

Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)

Jean Marchat

General Bertrand (uncredited)

Nicole Maurey

Madame Tallien (uncredited)

Anne Carrère

Madame Hamelin (uncredited)

Dora Doll

'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)

Louis de Funès

Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)

Pierre Would

Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)

Paul Dupuis

Neipperg