Frede (born Suzanne Jeanne Baulé, 8 November 1914 – 13 February 1976) was a French host and manager of cabarets in Paris and Biarritz.
Located at 58 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, near Quartier Pigalle, it was named La Silhouette, after a famous women's cabaret in Berlin which Dietrich was fond of.
She then worked for a while at the Triolet, Rue Galilée [fr], at the top of Champs-Élysées, then temporarily reverted to her Suzanne Baulé name and hid until the end of the war with her younger brother Pierre[2] in Voisines, Yonne.
[citation needed] Returning to Paris at the end of the war, Frede ran a bar in 1945-46 located at Villaret-de-Joyeuse Square [fr].
[5] These shows attracted many personalities, particularly from the world of cinema: Brigitte Bardot, Arletty, Orson Welles, Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Marlon Brando, Jean Gabin, Françoise Sagan, and Erich von Stroheim.
[6][page needed] The two women met in 1950, and lived together at the Hotel George V. The relationship was captured in a painting made by Leonor Fini of a plant with two flowers; one had the face of Félix and the other Frede's.
[citation needed] The France-Soir newspaper wrote in her obituary that "The one who, for civil status,[a] was never more than Frédérique Baulé [sic],[b] must be considered as one of the greatest seducers of her time.
[citation needed] A woman who always dressed as a man fascinated writer Patrick Modiano, the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient whose mother knew Frede.
Modiano portrayed her as a character in his novella Remise de peine [fr] [Suspended Sentence][12] and a drawing representing her illustrates the covers of the first paperback editions.