

125 minutes
1/27/1956
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.

Sacha Guitry
as le narrateur et Louis XI

Louis de Funès
as Antoine Allègre

Jean Marais
as François Ier

Robert Lamoureux
as Latude

Andrex
as Paulus

Renée Saint-Cyr
as l’Impératrice Eugénie

Françoise Arnoul
as la duchesse de Bassano

Danielle Darrieux
as Agnès Sorel

Sophie Desmarets
as Rose Bertin

Clément Duhour
as Aristide Bruant

Odette Joyeux
as La Passementière

Pierre Larquey
as Pierre Broussel

Lana Marconi
as la reine Marie-Antoinette

Michèle Morgan
as Gabrielle d'Estrées

Pauline Carton
as la bouquiniste
Pierre Would

Jeanne Boitel
as Mme Geoffrin / Sarah Bernhardt

Gilbert Bokanowski
as Louis XVI

Julien Carette
as Un Cocher

Jean Martinelli
as Henri IV / Firmin

Lana Marconi
as Marie-Antoinette

Jean Parédès
as Un Médecin

Gisèle Pascal
as Comtesse de G...

Gérard Philipe
as Le Trouvère

Simone Renant
as Marquise de V...

Renée Saint-Cyr
as L'Impératrice Eugènie

Jean Tissier
as Un Gardien de Musée

Antoine Balpêtré
as Verlaine

René Blancard
as Aubineau

Aimé Clariond
as Beaumarchais
Paul Colline
as Charles VII

Suzanne Dantès
as Madame d'Epinay

Jean Debucourt
as Philippe de Comynes

Jean-Jacques Delbo
as Monsieur de la Personne

Bernard Dhéran
as Voltaire jeune

Denis d'Inès
as Fontenelle
Henri Doublier
as Un dominicain

Émile Drain
as Victor Hugo

Pierre Dudan
as Un manifestant

Jacques Dumesnil
as Richelieu

Catherine Erard
as La Journaliste

Jacques de Féraudy
as Voltaire

Maurice Escande
as Le Baron de Grimm
Michel François
as Le Deuxième Visiteur

Jeanne Fusier-Gir
as L'Aubergiste

Gilbert Gil
as Molière

François Guérin
as Le Premier Visiteur
Marguerite Jamois
as Anne de Savoie

Roland Lesaffre
as Le Premier Royaliste

Robert Manuel
as Flaubert

Jacques Morel
as Gouverneur Jourdan

Lucien Nat
as Montesquieu

Claude Nollier
as Anne d'Autriche

Pierre Palau
as Un Moine

Jean Pâqui
as Le Comte d'Orgeix

Simone Paris
as Une Dame

Marguerite Pierry
as La Centenaire

Jacqueline Plessis
as La Reine Eléonore
Odile Rodin
as La Princesse d'Essling

Claude Sylvain
as Catherine de Médicis jeune

Pierre Vaneck
as François Villon

Jean Weber
as Henri III
Paul Fort
as Self - Le prince des poètes
Maurice Utrillo
as Self - Painter
Sirena Adgemova
as La Baronne de Pierre
Jean-Marc Anthony

Fernand Bellan
as Tristan l'Hermitte / Fouquier-Tinville

Henri Belly
Roland Bourdin

Henri Bosc

Alain Bouvette
as Monsieur Duval
Wladimir Brasco
Laurent Capelli
Brigitte Segui de Carreras

André Chanu
as Sully
René Charles
Pierre Darçay

Micheline Dax
as Yvette Guilbert

Paul Demange
as Fouquier-Tinville
Jacques Derives
as Un Garde

Germaine Dermoz
as Catherine de Médicis

Jean Dunot
as Un Moine
René Dupuy

Albert Duvaleix
as Béranger

Jim Gérald
as Un Cocher

Lucienne Granier
as La Provinciale

Gisèle Grandpré
as La Marquise de Sévigné
Janine Grenet
as Marguerite de Valois
Françoise Jacquier
as Une Amoureuse
Pierre Jadoux
Ariane Lancell
as Diane de Poitiers

René Lefèvre-Bel
Maria Lopez

Marcel Lupovici
as Marcel Paul

Pierre Massimi
as Un Photographe
Albert Médina
as Paul Tabout
Annie Monnier

Hubert Noël
as Un Passant
Nadine Olivier
as La Duchesse d'Etampes
Xénia Palley
as Karsavina
Léna Pastor
Josette Privat
Jacques Ralph
as Un Gardien de Prison

Jean-François Rémi

Philippe Richard
as Louis-Philippe

André Roanne
as Denis Diderot
Catherine Romane
as Une Jolie Femme

Madeleine Rousset
Roger Royer
as Un Officier de Police

Serge Sauvion
as Un Officier de Police

Georges Spanelly
as Bourgoin

Alice Tissot
as Madame Denis

Irène Tunc
as La Comtesse de Malazet

Pierre-Jean Vaillard
as Coitier

Jacques Varennes
as Scherer

Jeanne Véniat
as Madame Lefebvre - la mère de Firmin

Alain Saury
as Arsène (uncredited)