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.
Length 80 minutes
Claude Dauphin | Guillaume Apollinaire | René Alexandre | Régina Badet | Maurice Barrès | Julia Bartet | Sarah Bernhardt | Henry Bataille | Louis Blériot | Alice Bonheur | Jean Bouin | Berthe Bovy | Aristide Briand | André Brulé | Marcel Cachin | Andrew Carnegie | Georges Carpentier | Gustave Charpentier | Maurice Chevalier | Buffalo Bill Cody | Colette | Georges Courteline | Francis de Croisset | Gabriele D'Annunzio | Paul de Cassagnac | Wilhelmine de Hollande | Édouard de Max | Cléo de Mérode | Théophile Delcassé | Gabrielle Dorziat | Dranem | Paul Déroulède | Armand Fallières | Félix Galipaux | Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier | André Gide | Lucien Guitry | Firmin Gémier | Jean Jaurès | Kaiser Wilhelm II | King Alfonso XIII of Spain | Aristide Maillol | Marie Marlin-Poirier | Charles Maurras | Nellie Melba | Arthur Meyer | Mistinguett | Claude Monet | Montéhus | Paul Mounet | Jean Mounet-Sully | Carolina Otero | Gaston Ouvrard | Emmeline Pankhurst | Charles Pathé | Raymond Poincaré | Polaire | Marcelle Praince | Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen | Marcel Prévost | Auguste Renoir | Gaston Rivierre | Gabrielle Robinne | Auguste Rodin | Madeleine Roques | Gabrielle Réjane | Camille Saint-Saëns | Sem | Eugène Silvain | Cécile Sorel | Leo Tolstoy | Tsar Nicholas II | Duchesse d'Uzès | Paul Valéry | Pierre Veber | René Viviani | Ferdinand Zecca