Mata Hari by Ronald Millar
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Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, 1876 – 1917, was born in the Netherlands. At 18, she answered an advertisement in a newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain MacLeod, who was living in what was then the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and was looking for a wife. Zelle married MacLeod in Amsterdam in 1895. He was an alcoholic and regularly beat his wife, who was twenty years younger and whom he blamed for his lack of promotion. She studied the Indonesian traditions intensively for several months and joined a local dance company. Her artistic name, Mata Hari, is the word for "sun" in the local Malay language ("eye of the day"). She left her husband and divorced him in 1906. By 1905, Mata Hari began to win fame as an exotic dancer in Paris, but in 1910, myriad imitators had arisen. Her career declined after 1912. During WWI, she could cross national borders freely as Dutch. Before the war, she had performed several times before the Crown Prince of Germany. The French wanted her to spy on Germany. She was in 1916 identified as an double agent for Germany, prosecuted. sentenced to death and executed in 1917, never admitting to be a spy. Was she a scapegoat for French military failures?Heron Books, London, in the serie Women Who Made History,1970. Hardback. Publisher's olive faux leather, gilt and white titless, rule, and designs on the spines and front boards, gold-painted green endpapers, and gold ribbon markers. 253 pp. Lavishly illustrated.
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