that police officers had killed him. Fourteen Parisian newspapers reported his death as a suicide, but eight did not. The distance the bullet had traveled caused the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné to propose sarcastically that Stavisky had "a long arm". Political crisis of 6 February 1934 After Stavisky's death, details about his long criminal history, his relations with the French establishment, and his controversial death became public. His involvement with so many ministers caused the resignation of Premier Camille Chautemps amidst accusations from the right-wing opposition that he and his police had killed Stavisky intentionally to protect influential people. When Chautemps was replaced by Édouard Daladier, one of his first acts was to dismiss the prefect of the Paris police, Jean Chiappe, notorious for his rightist sympathies and suspected of encouraging previous anti-government demonstrations. Daladier then dismissed the director of the Comédie Française, who had been staging William Shakespeare's controversial play Coriolanus, and replaced him with the director of the Sûreté-Générale, a protege' of Chautemps and Daladier's centre-leftist Radical Socialist Party. He also appointed a new Interior Minister, Eugène Frot, who announced that demonstrators would be shot. The dismissal of Chiappe was the immediate cause of the 6 February 1934 crisis, which some considered as a possible rightist putsch. According to historian Joel Colton, "The consensus among scholars is that there was no concerted or unified design to seize power and that the police lacked the coherence, unity, or leadership to accomplish such an end." The historian of fascism, René Rémond, described it as "barely a riot ... a street demonstration". However, leftists feared an overt fascist conspiracy. Fomented by several conservative, anti-Semitic, monarchist, or fascist groups, including Action Française, the Croix-de-Feu and the Mouvement Franciste, the demonstration occurred on the night of 6–7 February 1934. The police fired upon and killed fifteen demonstrators. Daladier was forced to resign. His successor was conservative Gaston Doumergue, who formed a coalition government. It was the first time during the Third Republic that a government had to resign owing to oppositional rioters. Other results were the formation of anti-fascism leagues and an alliance between the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO, a socialist party) and the French Communist Party, which resulted in the 1936 Popular Front. Further consequences The scandal involved a remarkable range of people from politics, wealthy society and the literary-intellectual elite of Paris. Mistinguett was asked why she had been