While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he learns of this deception.
Michèle Morgan
as Marie Antoinette
Richard Todd
as Comte Axel von Fersen
Jacques Morel
as Louis XVI
Jeanne Boitel
as Mme. Campan
Aimé Clariond
as Louis XV
Madeleine Rousset
as Mme de Tourzel
Guy Tréjean
as Lafayette
Georgette Anys
as Une émeutière
Marcelle Arnold
as Mme. Adélaïde
Edmond Beauchamp
as Comte de Luxembourg
Jacques Bergerac
as Comte de Provence
