#frede

[crimson-femme]

Frede's Women's Nightclub in Montmartre, Paris (December 1950) from Pix magazine

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Frede's nightclub (Frede shown right) Montmartre, Paris, December 1950.

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[yourdailyqueer]

Frede (Suzanne Baulé) (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 8 November 1914 

RIP:13 February 1976

Ethnicity: White - French

Occupation: Entrepreneur, bar owner

Note: Frede was the first to allow women to dance together in a classic cabaret.

[ladiesalmanack]

Frede (1914-1976)

Frede, née Suzanne Jeanne Baulé, ran and opened several famous lesbian cabarets. She began her career as a set painter at the Folies Bergère theatre, before being hired as a barmaid at Le Monocle, one of the very first lesbian bars in Paris, run by Lulu de Montparnasse.

It was at the Monocle that Frede began dressing in men's clothes. It was also there that she met several of her famous lovers, including Anaïs Nin and Marlene Dietrich, with whom she had a long affair.

With Marlene Dietrich's help, Frede founded her own women's cabaret, ‘La Silhouette’, in 1938. The Second World War forced her into exile in the south of France, in Biarritz, where she opened a nightclub called ‘Touch-Wood’.

At the end of the war, she returned to Paris and became manager of the Carroll's cabaret, which she transformed into a fashionable venue frequented by all the celebrities of the time. At Caroll's, Frede was the first to allow women to dance together, even though the law forbade it.

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𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓰𝓻𝓸 - ch. 38: get away! (pt. 2)

[nickcassldy]

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Kongehuset offentliggjorde i går følgende billede af Frede, som jeg synes at i alle fortjener at se;

Vores kronprins, Ladies and Gents