Toni Bentley
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300090390
- eISBN:
- 9780300127256
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300090390.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter focuses on Margaretha Geertruida Zelle's new life in Paris after leaving her husband. Margaretha became a part of the demimonde—the working women, the theatrical women, singers, ...
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This chapter focuses on Margaretha Geertruida Zelle's new life in Paris after leaving her husband. Margaretha became a part of the demimonde—the working women, the theatrical women, singers, actresses, dancers, and prostitutes who traded in their “decency” for freedom over their own lives. She took the name Mata Hari and gave Paris its first genuinely fake Oriental temple dancer.Less
This chapter focuses on Margaretha Geertruida Zelle's new life in Paris after leaving her husband. Margaretha became a part of the demimonde—the working women, the theatrical women, singers, actresses, dancers, and prostitutes who traded in their “decency” for freedom over their own lives. She took the name Mata Hari and gave Paris its first genuinely fake Oriental temple dancer.
