Jean-Louis Barrault
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
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
Laura Betti
Virginia Capacelli
Enzo Jannacci
Italian clown
Pierre Malet
Emile Delage, student revolutionary
Hugues Quester
Jean-Louis Romeuf
Caterina Boratto
Madame Faustine
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, postmaster
Maurice Jacquemont
Innkeeper at Chaintrix
Agnès Nobecourt
Hubertine, Madame Faustine's daughter
Roger Trapp
Blacksmith at Meaux
Annie Belle
Prostitute with green stockings
Fausto Di Bella
Cook at Auberge du Soleil
Robert Nogaret
Beggar at Chaintrix
Michel Piccoli
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Eléonore Hirt
Marie-Antoinette (uncredited)