Jean-Louis Barrault
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
Marcello Mastroianni
Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt
Hanna Schygulla
Countess Sophie de la Borde
Pierre Malet
Emile Delage, student revolutionary
Aline Mess
Marie-Madeleine, Sophie's servant
Claude Legros
Sergeant at St. Menehould
Vernon Dobtcheff
Judge at the confiscation
Agnès Nobecourt
Hubertine, Madame Faustine's daughter
Annie Belle
Prostitute with green stockings
Fausto Di Bella
Cook at Auberge du Soleil
Michel Piccoli
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Eléonore Hirt
Marie-Antoinette (uncredited)