found: Author's Le meilleur, c'est l'autre, c1986:t.p. (Claude Grudet)
found: Antébi, É. Les filles de Madame Claude, c1975.
found: Bib. nat. de France auth. file, Dec. 23, 2015(hdg.: Grudet, Claude (1923?....); xrefs.: Madame Claude; Claude, Madame)
found: Telegraph WWW site, viewed Dec. 23, 2015(Madame Claude, brothel-keeper; real name Fernande Grudet; born July 6 1923, in Angers, western France; died December 19 2015; Fernande Grudet adopted the name Madame Claude when she opened her first brothel in the 1950s; her career in the vice trade began in Paris; in 1976 the French tax authorities began to investigate her finances; to avoid arrest she fled to Los Angeles, where she remained for a decade; she moved back to Paris)