Femme Fatale Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari Pat Shipman William Morrow: 450 pp., $25.95 UNTIL a few weeks ago, much of what I knew of Mata Hari I'd gathered from an eponymous ...

Mata Hari’s prosecutor in her court martial, Pierre Bouchardon, focused not on her deeds, but on her character: she was liberated, licentious, international, prone to rewriting her past.

LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) – A century ago on Sunday, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused … ...

Mata was executed by firing squad on October 15, at the age of 41. Mary adds: "Mata Hari may have been a German spy, she may also have been an innocent victim of the spy mania of 1917.

Mata Hari was only interested in one thing - and it wasn't espionage by TONY RENNELL Last updated at 22:00 10 August 2007 ...

Mata Hari was highly paid for her dancing, but entirely profligate in her spending. She gave a series of performances at the Olympia in Paris in autumn 1906, for a fee of 10,000 FF ($50,000 today).

Mata Hari was arrested in February 1917 – when she was executed later that year, she was 41 years old (Credit: Wikipedia) Back in the Netherlands, the MacLeods divorced in 1902.

Increasingly, though, Mata Hari — the stage name adopted by Margaretha Zelle — is also being reinterpreted as a victim of a time when a sexually liberated woman with artistic ambitions faced ...