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Fernande Grudet (6 July 1923 – 15 December 2015), also known as Madame Claude, was a French brothel keeper. In the 1960s, she was the head of a French network of call girls who worked especially for dignitaries and civil servants.
Madame Claude: Directed by Sylvie Verheyde. With Karole Rocher, Garance Marillier, Roschdy Zem, Pierre Deladonchamps. Paris, in the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
- Sylvie Verheyde
- 2 min
Madame Claude is the owner of a popular brothel in the late 1960s Paris, and has knowledge that gives her incredible power and influence over French politicians and underworld figures. The arrival of an affluent and well-connected young woman threatens to undermine everything.
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Set in the late 1960s Paris, the film focuses on two of its main protagonists, Madame Claude (Karole Rocher) and Sidonie (Garance Marillier), also known as Virginia. Madame Claude’s business is already flourishing when a new girl named Sidonie comes to meet her in order to join the business. Sidonie had a traumatic childhood involving a sexually as...
Sidonie’s father who holds an upper hand in the government in the ministry of foreign affairs hates Madame Claude for transforming his daughter into a prostitute. He tries to get back his daughter but in her eternal hatred, Sidonie insults her father in a restaurant. A humiliated father seeks revenge. He breaks all the chains in the government that...
Madame Claude had an interesting life. A woman trying to rule a world controlled by men. However, the narrative of the film fails to create an impact. There are also some references in the film linking Claude’s connection with famous French actor Alain Delon, and American actor Marlon Brando. These minute scenes were used to create speculation and ...
Born Fernande Grudet, a poor Jewish girl in the aristocratic chateau city of Angers, the future Madame led a life of high adventure—resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, gun moll of the Corsican Mafia and erstwhile streetwalker—before becoming the ultimate broker between beauty and power.
Apr 2, 2021 · Grudet was born July 6, 1923, in Angers, France, and much about her past before her rise as the leader of a network comprising France’s top call girls is contentious information. Claude was an alleged self-idolizer and frequently told lies to manipulate her public image to her advantage.
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Jan 8, 2014 · The brothels had been closed in 1946 and the only other glamorous figure was Madame Billy, twenty years Claude’s senior, who ran an old-fashioned clandestine brothel in the Rue Paul Valéry,...
