By: Cesar Garcia & Levi Eichelberger The Seductive Spy

Mata Hari was born on August 7, 1876.

Margaretha Zelle was Mata Hari’s real name.

Mata Hari was born in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.

Her family nickname was M’greet

She was skilled at driving carriages after her father got her one as a b-day present

Margaret’s family went bankrupt when she was 13

She was married to Rudolph MacLeod through an ad in the paper

On May 2,1898 Mata Hari gives birth to daughter Jeanne-Louise on the island of Java.

She has an affair with Major Arnold Kalle, a German spymaster who sets her up to be discovered by the Allies as a spy, though she had not given up any sensitive information to the Germans

In 1906, her and MacLeod divorce

Mata Hari was only interested in one thing - and it wasn't espionage

Mata Hari was her exotic dancer name, which means “eye of dawn”.

After her career as a dancer, she became a courtesan (prostitute)

Of course, she was also a spy

Mata Hari dying by firing squad

Margaretha Zelle was killed on October 15, 1917

In 1931, a movie was made about her life

There was also a game made based on the history of the legendary spy in 2007

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Works Cited forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl kleurrijkhortense.blogspot.com