| Pre | | | Lily |
| | Blanche Ross | Auzello | Claude Auzello's wife. |
| | Napoleon | Bonaparte | A French statesman. |
| | Madame | Ritz | Monsieur Ritz's wife. |
| | Monsieur | Rey Ritz | The owner of Ritz Hotel. |
| | Marcel | Proust | French novelist. |
| | Sarah | Bernhardt | French stage actress. |
| | Auguste | Escoffier | French chef. |
| | Gioachino | Rossini | Italian composer. |
| | Dame Nellie | Melba | "a Nellie Melba
Australian operatic soprano." |
| 1 | | | Blanche, June 1940 |
| | Coco | Chanel | "a Coco Chanel
French fashion designer." |
| | Claude | Auzello | Director of the Ritz Hotel. |
| | | Chabat | A florist. |
| | Cesar | Ritz | Swiss hotelier founder of famous Hotel Ritz. |
| 2 | | | Claude, 1923 |
| | Pearl | White | American film actress. |
| | Rudolph | Valentino | Italian actor. |
| | Gloria | Swanson | American actress and producer. |
| | Mrs. | Carter | Claude's acquaintance. |
| | Monsieur | Marquet | The owner of The Claridge Hotel. |
| 4 | | | Claude, 1923 |
| | Marie-Louise | Ritz | Cesar Ritz's wife. |
| | Monsieur | Renaudin | Claude's superior. |
| | Josephine | Beauharnais | The first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. |
| | J'Ali | | English actor of Pakistani descent. |
| 5 | | | Blanche, June 1940 |
| | Cleopatra VII | | The last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. |
| | Elsa | Schiaparelli | Italian fashion designer. |
| 6 | | | Claude, 1924 |
| | Edward VII | | The former King of the United Kingdom. |
| | Duchesse | Perigord | The former Anna Gould, an American heiress and socialite. |
| | Barbara | Hutton | Philanthropist. |
| 7 | | | Blanche, Spring 1941 |
| | Lily | Kharmanyoff | Blanche's friend. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | Frank | Meier | Claude's friend. |
| | Madeleine | Vionnet | French fashion designer. |
| | Ernest | Hemingway | American journalist. |
| | Scott | Fitzgerald | American writer. |
| | Cole | Porter | American composer and songwriter. |
| | Pablo | Picasso | Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker. |
| | Hermann | Goring | German political and military leader. |
| | Spatzy | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
| | Greta | Garbo | Swedish-American film actress. |
| | Marlene | Dietrich | German-American actress and singer. |
| | Arletty | | French actress, singer, and fashion model. |
| 9 | | | Blanche, Spring 1941 |
| | Robert | | Lily's husband. |
| | Josephine | Baker | American-born French entertainer. |
| | Linda | | Cole Porter's wife. |
| 10 | | | Claude, 1938 |
| | Olive | Thomas | American silent-film actress and model. |
| | Jack | Pickford | Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer. |
| | Mary | Pickford | Canadian-born American film actress and producer. |
| | Benito | Mussolini | "a Benito Mussolini
Former Prime Minister of Italy." |
| | Elsa | Maxwell | American gossip columnist and author. |
| | Hans Günther | Dincklage | German jurist. |
| 11 | | | Blanche, Autumn 1941 |
| | Friedrich | | A young soldier. |
| | Katrin | | Friedrich's girlfriend. |
| | Carl-Heinrich | Stulpnagel | German general. |
| | Klaus | | A driver. |
| | Erich | Ebert | A colonel. |
| | Astrid | | Colonel Ebert's secretary. |
| | Jean | Patou | French fashion designer. |
| | Lucien | Lelong | French couturier. |
| | Zelda | Fitzgerald | American novelist, socialite, and painter. |
| | Leon | Blum | French socialist politician, three-time Prime minister of France. |
| 12 | | | Claude, 1938 |
| | George V | | Former King of the United Kingdom. |
| | Edouard | Daladier | French Radical-Socialist politician, Prime Minister of France. |
| 13 | | | Blanche, Autumn 1941 |
| | Richard | Strauss | "German composer." |
| | Claude | Debussy | "French composer." |
| | Maurice | Chevalier | French actor. |
| | Mistinguett | | French actress and singer. |
| | Glenn | Miller | American trombonist. |
| | Thomas | Dorsey | American jazz trombonist. Aka: Tommy. |
| | | Bricktop | American dancer. |
| | Louis | Armstrong | American trumpeter. |
| | Cab | Calloway | American singer. |
| | Elise | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
| | Gerald | Murphy | American painter. |
| 14 | | | Claude, Autumn 1941 |
| | Hans | Speidel | German general during the Second World War. |
| | Edith | Piaf | French singer-songwriter. |
| | Francois | Dupre | French, hotelier, art collector. |
| | Charles | de Gaulle | Former President of France. |
| | Philippe | Petain | Former French Ambassador to Spain. |
| | Martin | | Claude's friend. |
| 15 | | | Blanche, Autumn 1941 |
| | Clement | Marot | French Renaissance poet. |
| | Greep | | One of Frank Meier's friends. |
| 16 | | | Claude, Autumn 1942 |
| | Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| 17 | | | Blanche, Autumn 1942 |
| | Astrid | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
| | Lorenzo | | Lily's new lover. |
| 18 | | | Claude, Autumn 1942 |
| | Simone | | One of Martin's acquaintances. |
| | Michele | | One of Martin's acquaintances. |
| 20 | | | Claude, Winter 1943 |
| | Adolf | Eichmann | One of the major organizers of the Holocaust. |
| 21 | | | Blanche, Winter 1943 |
| | Berthe | Valery | A plastic surgeon. |
| | Moule | Valery | Berthe Valery's husband. |
| 22 | | | Claude, Winter 1944 |
| | Hans | Emliger | Claude's manager. |
| | Turk | | Greep's friend. |
| 23 | | | Blanche, Winter 1944 |
| | Heifer | | Lorenzo's acquaintance. |
| 26 | | | Claude, June 1944 |
| | Bloch | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| | Raphael | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| | Jacoby | | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| | Blanche | Rubenstein | Real name of Blanche Ross Auzello. |
| 27 | | | Blanche, June 1944 |
| | Judy | Garland | American actress, singer, and dancer. |
| | Mickey | Rooney | American actor. |
| | Abraham | Lincoln | "16th U.S. President.
16th U.S. President" |
| 30 | | | Claude, July 1944 |
| | Herr | Enreich | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| | Herr | Steinmetz | One of Claude's acquaintances. |
| | | | The Ritz |
| | Robert | Capa | Hungarian-born American war photographer and photojournalist. |
| | Lee | Miller | American photographer. |
| | Gertrude | Stein | American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. |
| | Alice | | Gertrude's friend. |
| | George | Scheuer | Frank Meier's former lieutenant. |
| 33 | | | Blanche, September 1944 |
| | Jacques | | A shoeshine boy. |
| | Victor | | Blanche's acquaintance. |
| | Martha | Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway's wife. |
| | Mary | | A reporter. |
| | Benny | Goodman | American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. |
| | General | Leclerc | French soldier. |
| 34 | | | Claude, Autumn 1945 |
| | Foxy | Sondheim | New York fashion designer. |
| | Walter | Winchell | American columnist. |