Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .

Pierre Renoir
Charles Lafarge

Marcelle Chantal
Marie Lafarge-Capelle

Raymond Rouleau
Maître Lachaud

Margo Lion
Aména Lafarge

Sylvie
Adélaîde Lafarge

Erich von Stroheim
Denis

Florence Marly
Emma Pontier
Berthe d'Yd
Mlle. Brun

Auguste Bovério
President of Assises

Sylvette Fillacier
Clémentine

Pierre Palau
Defoy
Lisette Missier
Mlle. von Martens

Odette Talazac
Innkeeper
Yvette Darnys
A girl

Solange Sicard
A girl