Madame Claude

Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege and Power

New Hardback Illustrated

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Known as France’s foremost brothel keeper during the 1960s, Madame Claude was born into poverty as Fernande Grudet. Drawing on personal conversations with her and on many celebrity testimonies, William Stadiem recounts Grudet’s life as resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor and Mafia moll before she became a high-powered madame whose clients included Richard Burton, Steve McQueen and John F Kennedy. Slightly off-mint

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