Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. By Paul F. Jankowski. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv + 326 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-801-43959-0.
The crisis created by the collapse of Serge Stavisky's financial house of cards appears in French history texts because it elicited chaotic rightwing demonstrations at the Palais Bourbon, where the Chamber of Deputies met, on February 6, 1934. Parties on the left responded by taking steps that led to the creation of the Popular Front. However, in Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue, Paul Jankowski tells Stavisky's story not to forward the narrative of French politics in the …
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