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.
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
Henry Farty
(uncredited)
Géo Forster
Léo Malet
Extra (uncredited)
Germaine Stainval
Eugène Yvernès
Claude Autant-Lara
Director
Jean Aurenche
Writer
Maurice Blondeau
Denise Tual
Producer
Roland Tual
Oct 3, 2001
Sep 5, 1960
Jan 15, 2015
Sep 28, 2012
May 2, 2013
Feb 16, 2022
Mar 15, 1991
Nov 21, 2024
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Credit National
France
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