Jean Marais
Role: François de Capestang, aka 'Le Capitan'
Bourvil
Role: Baladin Cogolin
Elsa Martinelli
Role: Gisèle d'Angoulême
Pierrette Bruno
Role: Giuseppa
Arnoldo Foà
Role: Marshal of Ancre, Concino Concini
Lise Delamare
Role: Marie de Médicis
Annie Anderson
Role: Béatrice de Beaufort
Jacqueline Porel
Role: Léonora Galigaï
Jean-Paul Coquelin
Role: Monsieur de Vitry
Raphaël Patorni
Role: Duke of Angoulême
Robert Porte
Role: Duke of Rohan
Piéral
Role: Lorenzo, alchemist dwarf
Alain Janey
Role: Lackey of Gisèle
Françoise Deldick
Role: Waitress at the inn “La Pomme d’or”
Michel Thomass
Role: Executioner
Benoîte Labb
Role: Innkeeper’s wife
Marcel Pérès
Role: Innkeeper of “La Pomme d’or”
Jean-Michel Rouzière
Role: Provincial gentleman
Edmond Beauchamp
Role: Provincial governor
Christian Fourcade
Role: Louis XIII
Georges Adet
Role: Provincial gentleman (uncredited)
Raoul Billerey
Role: Concini man (uncredited)
René Roussel
Role: Gentleman (uncredited)
Henri Coutet
Role: Lackey of Gisèle (uncredited)
Paul Préboist
Role: Cut-purse thief (uncredited)
Jacques Préboist
Role: Cut-purse thief (uncredited)
Bernard Dhéran
Role: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Marcel Policard
Role: Halberdier (uncredited)
Louis Bugette
Role: Turnkey (uncredited)
Bernard Musson
Role: Concini's guard drinking the glass of wine (uncredited)
Henri Poirier
Role: Castle soldier (uncredited)
Elisabeth Fanty
Role: (uncredited)
Pierre Durou
Role: (uncredited)
Georges Montant
Role: (uncredited)
André Bonnardel
Role: (uncredited)
Jonny Mary
Role: (uncredited)
Edmond Tamiz
Role: (uncredited)