She was a very sensual young woman, at 15 years old the rector of her school knelt in the middle of the courtyard, threatening to commit suicide if she did not accept his loves. The girl's name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, she was Dutch.
Soon he changed school and looking for love, wrote in the section lonely hearts of a newspaper and contacted a military man who was on vacation in Amsterdam, they found each other, they liked each other and they had their honeymoon that night; Soon they got married and traveled to Indonesia to fix their home.
But love did not last long: he, alcoholic and violent, she, violent and flirtatious. Still they had two daughters, one of them died poisoned by the maid, in a fit of jealousy with the husbands of Margaretha Geertruida.
They divorced and Margaretha Geertruida Zelle returned to Europe, but now her name was Mata Hari.
Margaretha Geertruida, that is, Mata Hari, invented a new personality and a new life and began a brilliant career despite her poor dancer skills; but it didn't matter, she was a bad dancer but hypnotic on stage, with movements of stalking snake, exotic gaze, half-naked body; and thus critics and audiences from all over Europe surrendered.
And the military also surrendered, whom he put on his knees, and in other positions, in order to conquer his love, although those were not good times to be in meetings: the First World War was lived, and Mata Hari danced for the military Germans, and for the French, the English ...
In the end, Mata Hari played double espionage and ended up being discovered. The French captured her and shot her on a misty Parisian morning.
