Stavisky business

The Affaire Stavisky is a French political crisis which has occurred in December 1933, succeeding the death in mysterious circumstances of Alexandre Stavisky, called “beautiful Sacha”. This scandal was to symbolize the crisis of an unstable mode suspected of corruption and to contribute to the fall of the government Camille Chautemps and to the release of the unparliamentary riots of February 6th, 1934.

Facts

the December 23rd 1933, the director of the communal Credit of Bayonne, Gustave Tissier was stopped for Fraude and put in circulation of false-tickets for an amount of 235 frank million . One quickly discovered that Tissier was only the executant of the founder of the communal Credit, Serge Alexandre Stavisky, which Co-had organized this fraud with the Député-maire of Bayonne, Dominique-Joseph Garat. Alexandre Stavisky had been continued for fraud on several occasions during the previous years.

Relations

The survey, carried out beating drum, made it possible to discover the many relations maintained by the swindler in the mediums the police force, the Presse and the Justice: the deputy Bonnaure, the senator Renoult, the Minister for the Colonies and old Minister for Justice Albert Dalimier, the Dubarry news directors and Aymard had benefitted from its generosities in exchange of their support; the public prosecutor Pressard, brother-in-law of the President of the Council Camille Chautemps, had made so that Stavisky saw its lawsuit indefinitely deferred. Many personalities had been last good with “beautiful Sacha” and counted on its silence, so that when the police force found Stavisky failing in a country cottage of Chamonix, the January 7th 1934, one wondered who commits suicide it or the crime (because the circumstances of death were mysterious) profited more. The Canard connected of the time titrated “Stavisky committed suicide of a drawn ball to 3 meters. Here what it is to have the long arm. ” In short Stavisky had been covered by policies and this business started a great polemic and divided France into two clans: those which believed it guilty and the other not-culprit.

Antiparliamentarianism

The business made burst a political scandal since it appeared that Stavisky was already continued by justice, continuations choked on intervention of ministers or corrupted members of Parliament (falls of the government of Camille Chautemps). The adversaries of the government affirmed that this death benefitted the left more, with the radicals of which Chautemps. André Tardieu published a whimsical list of members of Parliament “having touched”, which pointed out the “ chéquards ” of the business of Panama. Leon Daudet denounced in Chautemps the chief of a band of robbers and assassins. The adversaries of the mode saw in this business a new proof of its lowering. An access of Antiparlementarisme seizes the country, even more violent than that caused by the Affaire Hanau, or the Affaire Oustric. It leads to the riot of the February 6th, 1934.

See too

Stavisky is a French film of Alain Resnais left in 1974. Jean-Paul Belmondo interprets the title role there.
This unpleasant Stavisky business, History of a political scandal , Paul Jankowski, Beech, 2000.

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