Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue - Paul Jankowski - Google Books

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"A swindler charmed and spent his way to the heights of the [French] Republic, before coming to a mysterious end on the side of Mont-Blanc." With these words, Paul F. Jankowski introduces his subject, Russian-born Sacha Stavisky, who in 1934 set off a…