| 1 | | | Babs |
| | Barbara | Langford | A young widow. Aka: Babs. |
| | Christopher | Langford | Babs' husband. Aka: Kit. |
| | Charles | | Babs' eldest brother. |
| | Walnut | | A dog. |
| | Mrs. | Finch | The housekeeper. |
| | Robert | Langford | Kit's father. |
| | Tess | | Robert's wife. |
| | Diana | | Babs' older sister. |
| | Amelia | Earhart | American aviator. |
| | Walter | | Andrew Bowdoin's father. |
| | Andrew | Bowdoin | An American lawyer. Aka: Drew. |
| 2 | | | Aurélie |
| | Aurélie | | The daughter of an American heiress. Demoiselles de Courcelles. |
| | Giovanni | Boldini | An Italian genre and portrait painter. |
| | Auguste | Rodin | A French sculptor. |
| | Julius | Caesar | Former Roman consul. |
| | Maximillian | von Sternburg | The right-hand man of the commandant of Paris. Aka: Max. |
| | Johann Wolfgang | von Goethe | German writer and statesman. |
| | Arthur | Rimbaud | French poet. |
| | Marcel | Proust | French novelist. |
| | Marquise | Casati | An Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts. |
| | Voltaire | | French writer. |
| | Jean-Marie | | Aurélie's childhood friend. |
| | Gaston | | A chauffeur. |
| 3 | | | Daisy |
| | Marguerite | de Courcellesa | A girl who was raised by her free-spirited grandmother. aka: Daisy. |
| | Grandmère | | Daisy's grandmother. |
| | Bernard | | The porter. |
| | Monsieur | Legrand | Grandmere's friend. The name used by Kit during war. |
| | Jacques | Lapin | Former owner of the bookshop. |
| | Pierre | | Daisy's husband. |
| | Madame | Halévy | Grandmere's acquaintance. |
| | Croesus | | King of Lydia who, according to Herodotus, reigned for 14 years. |
| | Olivier | | One of Daisy's children. |
| | Madeleine | | One of Daisy's children. |
| 4 | | | Babs |
| | Robin | | Babs' eldest son. |
| | Reginald | | Robin's uncle. Aka: Reggie. |
| | Napoleon | Bonaparte | French statesman and military leader. |
| | Marie | Antoinette | Queen of France. |
| | Precious | Dubose | Babs' acquaintance. |
| | Prunella | Schuyler | Precious' old friend. |
| 5 | | | Aurélie |
| | Victor | | A guard. |
| | Louis XV | | King of France. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV. |
| | Clovis | | A dog. Aurelie's father's old companion. |
| | Sigismund | de Courcelles | Aurelie's father. Monsieur Le Comte. |
| | Monsieur | le Cure | Aurelie's father's acquaintance. |
| | Melisande | | Sigismund's wife. |
| | Major | Hoffmeister | The Etappen Kommandant. |
| 6 | | | Daisy |
| | Dannecker | | Von Sternburg's companion. |
| | Justine | | A maid. |
| 7 | | | Babs |
| | Michelangelo | | Italian sculptor. |
| | César | Ritz | Swiss hotelier and founder of the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. |
| | Raphael | | A hairdresser. |
| | Jean | Shrimpton | An English model and actress. |
| | Rupert | | One of Babs' son. |
| | Penelope | | Babs' daughter. Aka: Penny. |
| 8 | | | Aurélie |
| | Dreier | | One of the soldiers. |
| | Kraus | | One of the soldiers |
| | Graf | von Enghein | Le Comte's grandfather. |
| | Suzanne | | The cook. |
| | Titian | | Italian painter. |
| 9 | | | Daisy |
| | Monsieur | Vallet | The head of Jewish affairs. |
| | Elisabeth | de Rothschild | Grandmere's dear friend. |
| | Philippe | | Monsieur Lapin's grandson. |
| 10 | | | Babs |
| | Coco | Chanel | The designer. One of Precious' friends. |
| | Margot | Lemouron | Precious' dearest friend. The name used by Daisy at the Ritz. |
| | Leslie | Howard | An English actor and film maker. |
| | Eugenia | | Babs' grandmother. |
| 11 | | | Aurélie |
| | Henri | | The old butler, |
| | Harry | Houdini | A Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer. |
| | Charlotte | Corday | A French radical. |
| | Jean-Paul | Marat | A French political theorist, physician and scientist. |
| 12 | | | Daisy |
| | La Fleur | | Daisy's code name. |
| | Jean-Paul | Bisset | One of the Allied pilots downed over Belgium. |
| | Gustave | Flaubert | A French novelist. |
| | William | Shakespeare | An English playwright, poet, and actor, |
| | Alexandre | Dumas | A French writer. |
| | Honoré | de Balzac | A French novelist and playwright. |
| | Marcel | Proust | A French novelist critic, and essayist. |
| | Charles | Dickens | An English writer and social critic. |
| | Anthony | Trollope | An English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. |
| | Frank | | A bartender. |
| | Swan | | Legrand's code name. |
| | Madame | Bisset | Legrand's acquaintance. |
| 13 | | | Babs |
| | Anne | Boleyn | Queen of England and second wife of King Henry VIII. |
| 14 | | | Aurélie |
| | Nicolas | | The baker's son. |
| | Madame | Lelong | The postmaster's wife. |
| | Aristophanes | | A comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet. |
| | Elisabeth | | Max's sister. |
| | Hercule | | Aurelie's uncle. |
| 15 | | | Daisy |
| | Madame | Duchamps | The headmistress. |
| | Madame | Levin | Daisy's acquaintance. |
| | O. | Henry | An American short story writer. |
| | Ovid | | A Roman poet. |
| | Marie-Rose | | One of Madame Levin's children. |
| | Genevieve | | One of Madame Levin's children. |
| 18 | | | Daisy |
| | Henri | Quatre | The first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. |
| | Maximilien | Robespierre | A French lawyer and statesman. |
| | Joan of Arc | | A heroine of France. |
| | Marguerite | Blakeney | Leads London society with her beauty, style and intelligence. |
| 19 | | | Babs |
| | Gigi | Mercier | The law firm librarian. |
| | Wilhelmina | Gold | Aurelie's maman. Daisy's grandmere. |
| | Monsieur | Deneaux | A long time employee at the Ritz. |
| 20 | | | Aurélie |
| | Erster | von Witzleben | Maximillian von Sternburg's uncle. |
| 23 | | | Aurelie |
| | King Charles | | The King of England. |
| | Plato | | An Athenian philosopher. |
| | Immanuel | Kant | A German philosopher. |
| 25 | | | Babs |
| | Queen Victoria | | Former Queen of the United Kingdom. |
| 26 | | | Aurélie |
| | Louis Quinze | | King of France. Louis XV. |
| 29 | | | Aurélie |
| | Jeanne | Deschamps | The name used by Aurelie to make her way safe to the Ritz. |
| | Marie | | A helper. |
| 30 | | | Daisy |
| | Christine | | Daisy and Kit's daughter. |
