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Edwige Feuillère

Cora Pearl

Monique Joyce

Lucy de Kaula

Simone Renant

Adèle Rémy

Marguerite Pierry

La Blandin

Nina Sinclair

Augustine

Raymond Rouleau

Philippe de Vaudrey

Guillaume de Sax

Le prince Jérôme Bonaparte

Aimé Clariond

Le duc de Morny

Roland Armontel

Arsène
(as Armontel)

Noël Roquevert

Criscelli

Jacques Maury

Le comte de Brimont

Camille Bert

Le gouverneur du fort
(uncredited)

André Carnège

Alexandre Dumas
(uncredited)

Andrée Champeaux

Jacques Courtin

Un ami de Lucy
(uncredited)

Robert Dartois

Mona Dol

La femme de ménage
(uncredited)

Pierre Ferval

Un paysan de Vaudrey
(uncredited)

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- Maurice Tourneur
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This is one of the worst examples of the French cinema during the German occupation.The appalling screenplay casts Feuillère as the mistress of Napoleon the third 's cousin Jerome.She does not love him but ,as she makes it clear: "you do not know what it is to be hungry".Alas,she falls in love with a legitimist (a royalist).

Edwige Feuillère and the whole cast's playing is obsolete and ridiculous.There's even a priceless duel sequence between the courtesan and her -female -enemy ,a duel with foils!

Maurice Tourneur turned around from that disaster and made a genuine fantastic masterpiece "la main du diable" the following year.

Napoleon the third's reign was never lucky:the most famous movies which deal with it are duds:"violettes impériales" (Richard Pottier;1952)"La Castiglione" (1954,with American star Yvonne De Carlo)