A former prisoner who break parole, turns his life around to live for God, and eventually becomes the wealthy mayor of a small town.
A police inspector who respects the law above all else.
An impoverished factory worker who loses her job and, as a result, turns to prostitution to continue paying the caregivers for her daughter.
A second-rate thief who runs a small inn where he continually bilks his customers.
The unscrupulous wife of an inn-keeper, who abuses the girl for whom she is caring.
A girl who grows up to be a beautiful young woman and falls in love with and marries a student revolutionary.
A student revolutionary who is rescued from the barricades in Paris and goes on to fall in love and get married to a beautiful young woman.
The daughter of an inn-keeper who grows up to be a thief like her father. She is killed near the barricades as she returned to see the man she loves, even as he loves another.
The idealistic leader of the student revolutionaries.
A streetwise urchin who knows everyone and everything that happens in the slums of Paris.