The Paris Express

A real 1895 event (train crash in Montparnasse) fleshed up into a near terror act by a young anarchist. But nothing happens as planned.

• Engine 721, the train
• Madeleine (Mado) Anne Pelletier (1874-1939)
• [Crew]
  • Guillaume Pellerin (driver) and Victor Garnier (stoker)
  • Léon Mariette (Senior Guard) and Jean Le Goff (Junior Guard)
• [First Class]
  • Émile Levassor (industrial), with wife Louise Sarazin-Levassor and daughter Jeanne
  • Fulgence Bienvenüe (Engineer in chief, father of the Parisian Métro)
  • Jules-Félix Gévelot (deputy), with wife Emma, and her friend Aimée
  • Comte de Lévis-Mirepoix (deputy), with mistress Mathilde Rihoteau-L'Heureux
• [Private Carriage]
  • M. Albert Silas Christophle (deputy) and wife Anna
• [Second Class]
  • Marcelle de Heredia (student of Marie Curie, originally from Cuba) — moved from First Class
  • Henry Tanner (American painter)
  • Alice Guy, secretary, later film director, and her boss, Léon Gaumont
• [Third Class]
  • Blonska (Elise), Russian émigrée
  • Augustine Baudin, maid
  • Cécile Langlois, who gives birth to a daughter
  • Annah Lamor (stage artist, model of Gauguin)
  • John Synge (Dubliner, later writer)
  • Hakim Dois (coffee seller)
  • Kiouaup and Max Jacob (students) — Max became a writer
  • Maurice Marland (7 year old, traveling alone) — misses his stop in Dreux
  • Gévelot's maid and manservant
  • Priest, soldier, and fisherwoman