Alexandre Stavisky

Serge Alexandre Stavisky (Ukraine, November 20th 1886 - 1934) is Russian with which the name remains associated with the Business Stavisky.

Of Jewish family, it is naturalized French in 1910. Seducer and smoothie, he quickly becomes a professional swindler. Implied in several businesses of flight and decree with Marly-the-King, it bails out eighteen months of prison to Health, with Paris, in 1926.

In spite of its supports in the economic circles and among the politicians, it is compromised definitively with the Affaire of the goods of Bayonne where it succeeds in diverting (under the name of Serge Alexandre) more than 200 franc million to the detriment of the Municipal credit of Bayonne with complicity of the deputy and mayor of the city, Joseph Garat.

Swindles is discovered with the end of the year 1933. Stavisky is then sought and it escapes. The police force tracks it to its country cottage close to Chamonix, known as the " Old man logis". When the police officers enter the residence, the January 8th 1934, a shot resounds and Stavisky is found died, a ball in the head. This event will be extremely médiatisé, the mediums of right will exploit the business in order to criticize the government of Camille Chautemps, which will give place to a known political crisis from now on under the name of the Affaire Stavisky.

This famous business will be the subject of the film Stavisky of Alain Resnais with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the title role.

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