Mata hari

The infamous Dutch spy Mata Hari, real name Margarete Geertruida Zelle who was born in Leeuwarden and became a dancer in France is performing the Dance of the Seven Veils.

Mata Hari

Who was Mata Hari? Exotic dancer, courtesan, seductress, spy, and femme fatale: Mata Hari was many things to many different people. But she is perhaps best ...

Perhaps no other female in history has used her feminine charms to such effect as Margaretha Zelle, better known by her alias Mata Hari. During the first

Mata hari

Mata Hari (Margaretha G. Zelle) Identity Papers. Guilty of intelligence with the enemy and shot in Vincennes on October 15, 1917.

Femmes fatales often become the main characters of movies. They mesmerize men with their beauty, and these men in turn change the world in the name of love. But in real life, things are not that simple. It would take more than their appearance to make these women famous and charismatic. It had to be something else that made their names go down in history.

Portrait of Mata Hari | By Edward Kobus

Trial archives kept confidential by the French have been released to the public, and a cache of her letters was published.

WWI Figure. Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, the only daughter of Antje van der Meulen and Adam Zelle, a prosperous hatter. Her childhood was privileged, she attended the best schools and was apparently spoiled by her father. When he went bankrupt in 1889, however, her parents divorced,...