Jean Marais (46)

François de Capestang, aka 'Le Capitan'

Bourvil (43)

Baladin Cogolin

Elsa Martinelli (25)

Gisèle d'Angoulême

Pierrette Bruno (32)

Giuseppa

Arnoldo Foà (44)

Marshal of Ancre, Concino Concini

Lise Delamare (47)

Marie de Médicis

Annie Anderson

Béatrice de Beaufort

Guy Delorme (31)

Rinaldo

Jacqueline Porel (41)

Léonora Galigaï

Jean-Paul Coquelin (36)

Monsieur de Vitry

Raphaël Patorni (49)

Duke of Angoulême

Robert Porte (37)

Duke of Rohan

Jean Berger (42)

Luynes

Piéral (36)

Lorenzo, alchemist dwarf

Jean Blancheur (55)

Alain Janey (34)

Lackey of Gisèle

Françoise Deldick (20)

Waitress at the inn “La Pomme d’or”

Michel Thomass (55)

Executioner

Benoîte Labb (55)

Innkeeper’s wife

Marcel Pérès (62)

Innkeeper of “La Pomme d’or”

Jean-Michel Rouzière (29)

Provincial gentleman

Edmond Beauchamp (60)

Provincial governor

Christian Fourcade (18)

Louis XIII

Georges Adet (66)

Provincial gentleman (uncredited)

Raoul Billerey (34)

Concini man (uncredited)

René Roussel

Gentleman (uncredited)

Henri Coutet (51)

Lackey of Gisèle (uncredited)

Paul Préboist (33)

Cut-purse thief (uncredited)

Jacques Préboist (37)

Cut-purse thief (uncredited)

Bernard Dhéran (34)

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)