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.
Cast
Odette Joyeux
Zélie Fontaine
François Périer
François de Portal
Simone Renant
Prefect Hortense de la Jacquerie
Jacqueline Champi
Marinette
Jean Parédès
Désiré Ledru
Ariane Murator
Charlotte
André Alerme
Marquis of Longevialle
Julien Carette
Loriquet
Jean Debucourt
Emperor Napoléon III
Robert Arnoux
Monsieur de la Jacquerie
Louis Salou
Monsieur de Mortemort
Yves Deniaud
Mayor
Georges Pally
Daronne
Jean-Pierre Kérien
Postillion
Martial Rèbe
President
Henri de Livry
Minister of Justice (uncredited)
Robert Vattier
Maître Boubousson
Gilles Quéant
Dance madman
Huguette Donga
Unknown
Henry Farty
(uncredited)
Géo Forster
(uncredited)
Léo Malet
Extra (uncredited)
Germaine Stainval
(uncredited)
Eugène Yvernès
(uncredited)
Crew
Claude Autant-Lara
Director
Jean Aurenche
Writer, Dialogue
Maurice Blondeau
Writer
Yvonne Martin
Editor
Philippe Agostini
Director of Photography
Ghislaine Auboin
Assistant Director
Denise Tual
Producer
Roland Tual
Producer
Robert Dumesnil
Production Design
Christian Dior
Costume Design
René Louge
Sound Designer
Maurice Yvain
Original Music Composer
Dominique Drouin
Production Director
Jacques Krauss
Art Direction
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