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Alexandre Stavisky Police Magazine 14 January 1934. The Stavisky affair was a financial scandal in France in 1934, involving embezzler Alexandre Stavisky.The scandal had political ramifications for the Radical-Socialist government after it was revealed that Prime Minister Camille Chautemps had protected Stavisky, who died suddenly in mysterious circumstances.
Stavisky affair, French financial scandal of 1933 that, by triggering right-wing agitation, resulted in a major crisis in the history of the Third Republic (1870–1940). The scandal came to light in December 1933 when the bonds of a credit organization in Bayonne, founded by the financier Alexandre.
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Nationality. French. Occupation. Financier. Serge Alexandre Stavisky (20 November 1886 – 8 January 1934) was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair. [1] [2]
A 1934 scandal that exposed the corruption and weaknesses of the French Third Republic. Learn about the swindler Serge Stavisky, the riot on the Place de la Concorde, and the legacy of the affair.
These events brought Stavisky to his last and fatal gamble, the affair of the municipal bonds at Bayonne. (The Hungarian bonds deal might have made bigger money, but it was nipped in the bud.)
Search for: 'Stavisky Scandal' in Oxford Reference ». (1934)During 1933 Serge Stavisky, a naturalized Frenchman from Russia, floated forged bonds on the Paris Bourse (stock exchange). When the police finally came to arrest him on 8 January 1934, he committed suicide. Enquiries into the delay in prosecuting him found that he had been backed and ...
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An article from History Today that explains the political and economic context of the Stavisky Affair, a scandal that triggered violent protests in France in 1934. The article also discusses the impact of the affair on the rise of fascism and the Vichy regime.
