Defence lawyer Maitre Jean-Claude speaking for his client, French Deputy Guiboux-Ribaud, during the Stavisky fraud trial at the Seine assizes, Paris, 14th January 1936. Guiboux-Ribaud is on trial with other associates of Serge Alexandre Stavisky (1866 - 1934) a swindler, who bribed police and government officials to ensure the success of his fraudulent financial schemes. The ensuing scandal led to the denounciation of politicians, the fall of the Daladier government and a riot of thirty thousand people in Paris. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
