Jean-Louis Barrault

Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne

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Marcello Mastroianni

Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt

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Hanna Schygulla

Countess Sophie de la Borde

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Harvey Keitel

Thomas Paine

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Jean-Claude Brialy

Monsieur Jacob

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Andréa Ferréol

Madame Adélaïde Gagnon

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Jean-Louis Trintignant

Monsieur Sauce

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Michel Vitold

De Florange

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Laura Betti

Virginia Capacelli

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Enzo Jannacci

Italian clown

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Pierre Malet

Emile Delage, student revolutionary

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Daniel Gélin

De Wendel

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Hugues Quester

Jean-Louis Romeuf

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Dora Doll

Nanette Precy

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Caterina Boratto

Madame Faustine

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Didi Perego

Madame Sauce

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Évelyne

Agnès, Restif's daughter

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Aline Mess

Marie-Madeleine, Sophie's servant

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Jacques Peyrac

Postilion

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Claude Legros

Sergeant at St. Menehould

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Vernon Dobtcheff

Judge at the confiscation

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Ugo Fangareggi

Soldier Bertrand

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Yves Collignon

Drouet, postmaster

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Maurice Jacquemont

Innkeeper at Chaintrix

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Agnès Nobecourt

Hubertine, Madame Faustine's daughter

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Roger Trapp

Blacksmith at Meaux

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Annie Belle

Prostitute with green stockings

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Fausto Di Bella

Cook at Auberge du Soleil

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Jacques Zanetti

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Antonella Cancellieri

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Robert Nogaret

Beggar at Chaintrix

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Bruno de Stabenrath

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Michel Piccoli

King Louis XVI (uncredited)

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Eléonore Hirt

Marie-Antoinette (uncredited)

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