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