Paris Nineteen Hundred

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.

Documentary

Claude Dauphin

(Narrator)

Guillaume Apollinaire

(Self (archive footage))

René Alexandre

(Self (archive footage))

Régina Badet

(Self - Actress and dancer (archive footage))

Maurice Barrès

(Self (archive footage))

Julia Bartet

(Self (archive footage))

Sarah Bernhardt

(Self (archive footage))

Henry Bataille

(Self (archive footage))

Louis Blériot

(Self (archive footage))

Alice Bonheur

(Self - Singer and actress (archive footage))

Jean Bouin

(Self (archive footage))

Berthe Bovy

(Self (archive footage))

Aristide Briand

(Self (archive footage))

André Brulé

(Self (archive footage))

Marcel Cachin

(Self (archive footage))

Andrew Carnegie

(Self (archive footage))

Georges Carpentier

(Self (archive footage))

Gustave Charpentier

(Self (archive footage))

Maurice Chevalier

(Self (archive footage))

Buffalo Bill Cody

(Self (archive footage))

Colette

(Self (archive footage))

Georges Courteline

(Self (archive footage))

Francis de Croisset

(Self (archive footage))

Gabriele D'Annunzio

(Self (archive footage))

Paul de Cassagnac

(Self - Journalist and politician (archive footage))

Wilhelmine de Hollande

(Self (archive footage))

Édouard de Max

(Self (archive footage))

Cléo de Mérode

(Self - Dancer and model (archive footage))

Théophile Delcassé

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Gabrielle Dorziat

(Self (archive footage))

Dranem

(Self (archive footage))

Paul Déroulède

(Self - Author and political activist (archive footage))

Armand Fallières

(Self (archive footage))

Félix Galipaux

(Self (archive footage))

Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier

(Self - Bishop of Versailles (archive footage))

André Gide

(Self (archive footage))

Lucien Guitry

(Self (archive footage))

Firmin Gémier

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Jaurès

(Self (archive footage))

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany

(Self (archive footage))

King Alfonso XIII of Spain

(Self (archive footage))

Aristide Maillol

(Self (archive footage))

Marie Marlin-Poirier

(Self - Queen of queens Paris 1901 (archive footage))

Charles Maurras

(Self (archive footage))

Nellie Melba

(Self (archive footage))

Arthur Meyer

(Self - Press boss and writer (archive footage))

Mistinguett

(Self (archive footage))

Claude Monet

(Self (archive footage))

Montéhus

(Self (archive footage))

Paul Mounet

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Mounet-Sully

(Self (archive footage))

Carolina Otero

(Self (archive footage))

Gaston Ouvrard

(Self (archive footage))

Emmeline Pankhurst

(Self (archive footage))

Charles Pathé

(Self (archive footage))

Raymond Poincaré

(Self (archive footage))

Polaire

(Self (archive footage))

Marcelle Praince

(Self (archive footage))

Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen

(Self (archive footage))

Marcel Prévost

(Self (archive footage))

Auguste Renoir

(Self (archive footage))

Gaston Rivierre

(Self - Cyclist (archive footage))

Gabrielle Robinne

(Self (archive footage))

Auguste Rodin

(Self (archive footage))

Madeleine Roques

(Self - Comedy actress - French (archive footage))

Gabrielle Réjane

(Self (archive footage))

Camille Saint-Saëns

(Self (archive footage))

Sem

(Self - Cartoonist (archive footage))

Eugène Silvain

(Self (archive footage))

Cécile Sorel

(Self (archive footage))

Leo Tolstoy

(Self (archive footage))

Czar Nicholas II of Russia

(Self (archive footage))

Duchesse d'Uzès

(Self (archive footage))

Paul Valéry

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Veber

(Self (archive footage))

René Viviani

(Self (archive footage))

Ferdinand Zecca

(Self (archive footage))