Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing
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
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 worriesโฆ
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