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She was sacrificed - some say - because the French needed to find a spy to explain their succession of reverses in the war. For feminists, she was the perfect...
Promiscuous, flirtatious, and openly flaunting her body, Mata Hari captivated her audiences and was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musée Guimet on 13 March 1905. [19] She became the long-time mistress of the millionaire industrialist Émile Étienne Guimet, who had founded the Musée.
Oct 15, 2017 · She was sacrificed - some say - because the French needed to find a spy to explain their succession of reverses in the war. For feminists, she was the perfect...
Oct 14, 2017 · Why Mata Hari Wasn't a Cunning Spy After All. Executed 100 years ago, the exotic dancer broke the rules in the early 20th century. But did that cost her her life?
Nov 24, 2009 · Mata Hari, the dancer and spy, is executed for espionage by a French firing squad outside of Paris. She was accused of acting as a double agent for the French and Germans during World War II.
Oct 15, 2017 · For the past 100 years, Mata Hari has been revered as the ultimate femme fatale — the seductive, glamorous exotic dancer who spied for the Germans during World War I and caused the deaths of ...
Oct 15, 2020 · Mata Hari, the most celebrated woman in the world, was dead. Margaretha The abandoned daughter of a bankrupt Dutch hatter, Mata Hari was born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, on Aug. 7, 1876.
Oct 11, 2024 · Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and courtesan whose name has become a synonym for the seductive female spy. She was shot by the French on charges of spying for Germany during World War I. The nature and extent of her espionage activities remain uncertain, and her guilt is widely contested.
In the early-morning hours of October 15, Mata Hari was awakened and taken by car from her Paris prison cell to an army barracks on the city's outskirts where she was to meet her fate. "I am ready." Henry Wales was a British reporter who covered the execution. We join his story as Mata Hari is awakened in the early morning of October 15.
Oct 13, 2017 · By Ray Cavanaugh. October 13, 2017 12:00 PM EDT. S he refused a blindfold and by some accounts even smiled at her executioners. Margaretha Zelle, a.k.a. “Mata Hari,” an exotic dancer and...
