Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under the belief he's a fortune hunter.
Marguerite
Maxime Hauterive de Champcey
Le berger
Mlle Aubry
M. Laroque
La concierge
Le vieux domestique
Bévallan
Florimond
Mlle Helouin
Mlle de Porhoët
Mme Laroque