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Nationality. French. Known for. Brothel keeper. 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.
Jun 7, 2023 · Born in 1923 in Anger as Fernande Grudet, Claude was the second daughter of a modest family. After moving to Paris in 1953, she got involved with criminals and briefly worked in the sex trade herself. Grudet had no desire to do this forever, so she completely reinvented herself as the child of a Bourgeois family and assumed the name Madame Claude.
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.
- Sylvie Verheyde
- 2 min
Dec 22, 2015 · Madame Claude ran an exclusive brothel near the Champs Elysees in Paris, at one point managing more than 500 women. A former Resistance fighter, she was eventually found guilty of pimping in a ...
Aug 22, 2014 · Madame Claude was an institution, a legend, and a living legend at that. But she was also a vanishing act. We lost touch when she returned to France in 1985 and cut a deal with the French ...
Madame Claude, who would in time become a sort of Dr. Ruth, if not Dr. Spock, in the psychology of sex, understood the relationship of hostility and eros, of frustration and arousal. Dressing her damsel in Givenchy was waving a red cape at a bull; the bull was sure to charge, as was the president.
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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. [3] [4]
