Plot
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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Cast
Daniel Gélin
Napoléon Bonaparte
Michèle Morgan
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Raymond Pellegrin
Old Napoléon Bonaparte
Sacha Guitry
Talleyrand
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely
Jeanne Boitel
Madame de Dino
Gilbert Bokanowski
Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
Pierre Brasseur
Barras
Gianna Maria Canale
Pauline Borghese
Jean Chevrier
General Duroc
Danielle Darrieux
Eléonore Denuelle
Clément Duhour
Marshal Michel Ney
Jacques Dumesnil
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
O.W. Fischer
Karl von Metternich
Jean Gabin
Marshal Jean Lannes
Cosetta Greco
Elisa Baccioli
Madeleine Lebeau
Emilie Pellapra
Jean Marais
Count Montholon
Lana Marconi
Marie Walewska
Luis Mariano
Garat
Armand Mestral
Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
Yves Montand
Lefebvre
Patachou
Madame Sans-Gêne
Roger Pigaut
Marquis de Caulaincourt
Micheline Presle
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
Serge Reggiani
Lucien Bonaparte
Dany Robin
Désirée Clary
Noël Roquevert
General Cambronne
Maria Schell
Marie-Louise d'Autriche
Erich von Stroheim
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maurice Teynac
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
Henri Vidal
Marshal Joachim Murat
Orson Welles
Sir Hudson Lowe
Roland Alexandre
Count of Blanc-Mesnil
Lucien Baroux
Louis XVIII
Pauline Carton
An innkeeper
Michèle Cordoue
Laetitia
Jean Danet
General Gourgaud
Jean Debucourt
Count Joseph Fouché
Bernard Dhéran
Bourrienne (uncredited)
Maurice Escande
Louis XV (uncredited)
Maria Favella
Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
Gilbert Gil
Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)
Daniel Ivernel
Cambacérès (uncredited)
Marie Mansart
Madame Bertrand (uncredited)
Robert Manuel
Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
Jean Marchat
General Bertrand (uncredited)
Nicole Maurey
Madame Tallien (uncredited)
Anne Carrère
Madame Hamelin (uncredited)
Dora Doll
'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Louis de Funès
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Pierre Would
Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)
Paul Dupuis
Neipperg
