person
Madame Dudu
also: мадам Дуду, m-me Дуду
The hawk-faced madam who keeps a fashionable house of "wards" (Barbe and Blanche) in Moscow, presiding over the evening's champagne and moralizing about the propriety of her girls.
Reading notes
- The Crow §4 Madame Dudu
The madam of a fashionable Moscow establishment; her French-sounding name and pretensions to propriety are part of the story's satire of demimonde manners.