Marthe Hanau [SEP] manner of death
Marthe Hanau committed suicide on 19 July 1935 by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
Legacy.
A French movie, "La Banquière" ("The Lady Banker"), by Francis Girod, was made in 1980, starring Romy Schneider as "Emma Eckhert", a thin disguise for Marthe Hanau.
See also.
- 6 February 1934 crisis
References.
- Notes
- Sources
- Janet Flanner, "The Swindling Presidente," "The New Yorker", 26 August
Marthe Hanau
Marthe Hanau (1890–1935) was a Frenchwoman who successfully defrauded French financial markets in the 1920s and 1930s.
Early life.
Marthe Hanau was born in Lille to a Jewish family of an industrialist. 
She married and later divorced Lazare Bloch. In 1925, she and Bloch (they remained business partners after the divorce) founded an economic newspaper, "La Gazette du Franc et des Nations". Hanau used the newspaper to dispense stock tips to financial speculators.
Fraud.
Hanau's paper