LEADER 00000nim a22004935a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125070902.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 190628s2018 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781427298621 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1427298629 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ mcm_9781427298621_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT12215421 037 12215421|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 306.7/42092|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Stadiem, William,|eauthor. 245 10 Madame Claude :|bher secret world of pleasure, privilege, and power|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cWilliam Stadiem. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bMacmillan Audio,|c2018. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 15 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Read by Eliza Foss and Keith Sellon-Wright. 520 Madame Claude, by renowned social historian William Stadiem, is a magnificent audiobook about the brilliant, complicated, and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world. In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles and famous names than any of the Seven Sisters. The names on her client list were epic-Kennedy, Rothschild, Agnelli, Onassis, Niarchos, Brando, Sinatra, McQueen, Picasso, Chagall, Qaddafi, the Shah, and that's just for starters. By the 1950s, she was the richest and most celebrated self-made woman in Europe, as much of a legend as Coco Chanel. 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. She harnessed the emerging postwar technology of the telephone to create the concept of the call girl. But Madame Claude wasn't just selling sex-she was the world's ultimate matchmaker, the Dolly Levi of the Power Elite. She was also one of the most controversial-and most wanted-women in the world. Now, through his own conversations with the woman herself and interviews with the great men and remarkable women on whom she built her empire, social historian and biographer William Stadiem pierces the veil of Claude's secret, forbidden universe of pleasure and privilege. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Grudet, Claude. 650 0 Prostitutes|zFrance|vBiography. 650 0 Prostitution|zFrance. 650 0 Businesswomen|zFrance. 700 1 Foss, Eliza,|eNarrator. 700 1 Sellon-Wright, Keith,|eNarrator 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 12215421?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ mcm_9781427298621_180.jpeg