A new success for Netflix. The famous streaming platform offers its users since Friday, April 2, 2021 to discover Madame Claude, a biopic on the history of Fernande Grudet, better known under the name of Madame Claude and nicknamed the “Madam of the Republic“. The one interpreted by Karole Rocher is still considered to this day as the biggest pimp in France. A woman at the head of the largest network of luxury prostitutes in Paris in the 1960s and 1970s. Thursday April 22, one of the old “girls“by Madame Claude agreed to testify on television. It is in the program of Jean-Marc Morandini, Morandini Live, broadcast on Cnews, than Patricia Herszman, recruited by Madame Claude at the age of 18, remembered this period that she “do not regret”. “For me it went very well”, she assures.
What attracted the young woman of the time? “The lifestyle“offered to”girls“from Madame Claude and the many meetings that her activities involved. Madame Claude who supplied young girls, but also boys, to the most influential businessmen or heads of state of the Fifth Republic. “With Claude, we had our free will. She would ask us what was ok for us and what was not”, she assures, affirming that her boss had always been “fair “ with her and her colleagues. “It was very well paid. It was very rare for a customer to pay only the base price. There was always a tip. She never took anything on tips or gifts.”
“I say ‘Thank you'”
Patricia Herszman still feels grateful to this woman she has never been able to say “farewell“before his death in 2015, much to his despair. “I have only one regret: having cut ties by negligence with Mme Claude afterwards. The last years of her life, she spent them alone, a little neglected. Until the end of my life, I will regret not having seen her again. I say ‘Thank you’ “, she said in front of Jean-Marc Morandini.
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