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Mata Hari Quotes
Dancer and Spy
Mata Hari was dancer and spy from Netherlands
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Get Mata's Quotes“I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.”— Mata Hari
From Mata Hari's 1917 interrogation by Captain Bouchardon at Saint-Lazare prison, Paris. Recorded in official French military transcripts.
The Story of Mata
Legacy
Vincennes, October 15
On February 13, 1917, French police arrested her in Paris. Her military trial lasted two days. On October 15, twelve soldiers formed the firing squad at Vincennes. She refused a blindfold and stood tall. She was forty-one. In 2017, newly released French documents led many historians to conclude she had been a scapegoat, not a true spy.
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