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Jankowski captures every twist and turn in the case, but potentially more interesting material an ensuing riot . In 1933-34, France was rocked by the Stavisky affair.

Jankowski captures every twist and turn in the case, but potentially more interesting material an ensuing riot, the horrific results of French anti-Semitism, the inevitable collapse of the Third Republic isn't given enough play here, and an ambiguous epilogue leaves the reader hanging. While the book provides an ornate portrait of the Third Republic before the rise of Vichy, its appeal will be mainly to academics and historians and serious readers of French history. Alexandre Stavisky was a swindler with a history of schemes, including selling worthless bonds, but he had long been protected from prosecution by leading politicians.

Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue (Cornell University Press . Jankowski's remarks on the centenary of Verdun in The New York Times.

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Paul F. Janet Flanner, Paris was Yesterday (1972). Joel Colton, "Politics and economics in the 1930s" in From the Ancien Regime to the Popular Front, ed. Charles K. Warner (1969), p. 183. ^ Peter Davies, The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present: From de Maistre to Le Pen (Routledge, 2002), p. 96. Sources. Alfred Cobban, A History of Modern France, vol. 3: 1871–1962 (1965).

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Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv + 326 pp. Index, notes, illustrations. Recommend this journal.

By Paul F. Jankowski. Cornell University Press, 2002. University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus. by Paul F.

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As the millennium expired, the Republic’s servants, some sitting, others . Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944 and of Stavisky. A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. He was educated in Geneva, New York, and Balliol College, Oxford.

As the millennium expired, the Republic’s servants, some sitting, others retired, received much condemnation, whether welcomed or resented. When taken together, surely les affaires now approximate in political significance (if not in noise or invective) those of the Dreyfus or Panama scandals a century ago? Yet the author argues this is not so. Today, treason has vanished and is slowly giving way to a transgression different in kind, but equivalent in gravamen: the crime against humanity.