Alexandre Stavisky

Alexandre Stavisky
Alexandre Stavisky in 1926
Born20 November 1886
Died8 January 1934 (1934-01-09) (aged 47)
Chamonix, France
Cause of deathSuicide by gunshot
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery
NationalityFrench
OccupationFinancier

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]

  1. ^ Paul Jankowski, Stavisky - A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue, (2002)
  2. ^ David Clay Large, Between Two Fires: Europes Path in the 1930s (W.W.Norton: 1990) pp 24-58