A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Claude Autant-LaraDirector
Zélie Fontaine
François de Portal
Prefect Hortense de la Jacquerie
Marinette
Désiré Ledru
Charlotte
Marquis of Longevialle
Loriquet
Emperor Napoléon III
Monsieur de la Jacquerie
Monsieur de Mortemort
Mayor
Daronne
Postillion
President
Minister of Justice (uncredited)
Maître Boubousson
Dance madman
(uncredited)
Extra (uncredited)