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Madame Stavisky
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It's also because we love each other to the point of loving to lie together. Arlette Stavisky, wife of one of the most notorious swindlers of the last century, recounts her adventurous life here. Born in 1903, a stunningly beautiful model introduced to Parisian circles by Coco Chanel, she met Alexandre Stavisky, a shrewd financier and rising con man. A powerful love united them, until the businessman's ruin and suicide in 1934. A suicide, really? Arlette spent two years in prison for complicity with her husband while the winds of history swept through Paris and Europe: the deadly riots of February 1934, the Occupation, collaboration... Arlette compromised herself, clung to life, became an actress, a dancer, left for New York, ended up in Puerto Rico... Through this story, the ambitious and elusive Mrs. Stavisky reveals all the ambiguities of the era, along with a surprisingly modern thirst for freedom
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