Tangled Web: Mata Hari by Craig Mary W

Tangled Web: Mata Hari by Craig Mary W

Author:Craig, Mary W.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750984720
Publisher: The History Press


Madame de Fleurian also gave an account of additional knowledge of Mata Hari:

My doctor, Dr Boulommier, was the first to alert me that a very beautiful woman was staying at the same hotel as I and asked me with a certain enthusiasm if I had seen her. I said no. A few days later, I was taking tea in the park with … the doctor and his wife, when the person in question passed.

I found her to be of the gaudy type which showed me her social background. I became aware that this person had inflamed the masculine element at the hotel. Most of the men found this woman elegant and pretty.

Me, I was of a little different opinion, I noticed that she was of a certain age and that she had the air of a person who used morphine or cocaine. Her style throughout (I do not criticise otherwise her sense of propriety) rarely pleased me. For example, she said to the maid that she was a Dutch princess and I knew that this sort of title did not exist.

For the other part, she held conversations with a nun, in front of several people, saying for example that she had a château in Touraine and that she danced in Russia. I finally understood when, one evening, I found myself entering by accident into the salon of the hotel where she was finishing singing; she made a great bow as if she were in the theatre. Then a name was pronounced, that of Mata Hari, and a memory came to me of a dancer spoken of by the young people, perhaps my nephews. This woman was most often with a young Russian officer.

When I was leaving Vittel, one morning Brigadier General de Sancy introduced to me an officer of the gendarmerie … We spoke of Mata Hari and he told me that this woman was under suspicion. As far as I was concerned, I had no suspicion of espionage, I had taken her for a schemer, one of the cosmopolitan women that one saw in the spa towns before the war.36



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