Marcello Mastroianni

Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt

Hanna Schygulla

Countess Sophie de la Borde

Harvey Keitel

Thomas Paine

Jean-Claude Brialy

Monsieur Jacob

Andréa Ferréol

Madame Adélaïde Gagnon

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Monsieur Sauce

Michel Vitold

De Florange

Laura Betti

Virginia Capacelli

Pierre Malet

Emile Delage, student revolutionary

Daniel Gélin

De Wendel

Hugues Quester

Jean-Louis Romeuf

Dora Doll

Nanette Precy

Didi Perego

Madame Sauce

Évelyne

Agnès, Restif's daughter

Aline Mess

Marie-Madeleine, Sophie's servant

Claude Legros

Sergeant at St. Menehould

Vernon Dobtcheff

Judge at the confiscation

Ugo Fangareggi

Soldier Bertrand

Yves Collignon

Drouet, the postmaster

Annie Belle

Prostitute with green stockings

Michel Piccoli

King Louis XVI (uncredited)

Eléonore Hirt

Marie-Antoinette (uncredited)