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Guest Post: Femmes Fatales of Paris by Gordon Cope – Part 1

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Gordon Cope was previously featured on Reading Recommendations and offered to write this new 3-part series about Paris.

In celebration of the publication of the 10th anniversary eBook edition of A Paris Moment, I am writing a series based upon Femmes Fatales of Paris.

THE SPY โ€“ MATA HARI
Femmes Fatales Mata Hari Any compendium of Femmes Fatales of Paris must, of course, start with Mata Hari.

Born in the Netherlands in 1876, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was the daughter of a prominent milliner. When she turned 18, she married Captain John MacLeod of the Dutch Colonial Army and moved with him to Java, where they had two children.

The marriage did not end well. MacLeod was abusive towards Margaretha, and openly consorted with an Indonesian concubine. One of the children took ill, and died. Margaretha left MacLeod for another Dutch officer and took up Indonesian dancing as a distraction from her worriesโ€ฆ

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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