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Title Madame Claude : her secret world of pleasure, privilege, and power / William Stadiem.
Author Stadiem, William, author.
Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
©2018
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B GRUDET    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Introductory French -- The making of a madam -- Young guns -- The sexual Olympics -- Head mistress -- Crime without punishment -- An American in Paris -- The turn of the screw -- Exile on Rodeo Drive -- The prisoner of sex -- Epilogue.
Summary Traces the remarkable life of the head of post-World War II Paris' most exclusive finishing school, tracing her origins as an impoverished Jewish girl from the city of Angers and discussing the controversies that made her one of the world's most wanted women.
"The secret life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world."--Dust jacket.
Subject Grudet, Claude.
Prostitutes -- France -- Biography.
Prostitution -- France.
Businesswomen -- France.
ISBN 9781250122384 (hardcover) : $27.99
1250122384 (hardcover)
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