

118 minutes
9/14/1946
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.

Viviane Romance
as Countess Jeanne de la Motte-Valois

Maurice Escande
as Louis de Rohan
Michel Salina
as Count Nicolas de la Motte

Jacques Dacqmine
as Marc Rétaux de Villette
Marion Dorian
as Marie-Antoinette

Pierre Dux
as Cagliostro

Pierre Palau
as Boëhmer

Pierre Bertin
as Abbot Loth

Jean Hébey
as Louis XVI
André Philip
as Deschamps

Jean-Louis Allibert
as Camille Desmoulins

Pierre Magnier
as Prosecutor Joly de Fleury

Paul Amiot
as Maître Doillot

Marcel Delaître
as Maître Target
André Varennes
as First president of Aligre

Robert Dartois
as Monsieur de Soubise
Hélène Bellanger
as Duchess of Polignac
Florence Lynn
as Princess of Lamballe
Saint-Pol
as Jeweler Bassange

Marcel Vibert
as Advocate General Séguier

André Wasley
as Bailiff of Suffren
Marcel Lagrange
as Duke of Villeroi
Monique Cassin
as Nicole, Oliva's daughter
Marion Dorian
as Queen Marie-Antoinette
Luc Andrieux
as Jailer (uncredited)

Jacques Berlioz
as (uncredited)

Chukry-Bey
as (uncredited)

Jacques François
as Count of Artois (uncredited)

Lucas Gridoux
as Member of parliament (uncredited)

Pierre Labry
as Hubert (uncredited)

Philippe Lemaire
as (uncredited)
Johnny Marchand
as (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Mocky
as Page of the Queen (uncredited)

Jean Morel
as Mr. de Breteuil (uncredited)
Paul Ménager
as (uncredited)

Philippe Olive
as Maître Breton (uncredited)

Georges Paulais
as Usher (uncredited)

Marcel Rouzé
as (uncredited)

Roger Vincent
as Court abbot (uncredited)

Yvonne Yma
as Hubert's Wife (uncredited)