that dutch exotic dancer margarita mccloud was convicted by the french of selling secrets to the german. during world war one and the idea of her life as a lethal double agent has inspired numerous books and films will now an exhibition in her hometown of new wagner in the netherlands takes a closer look at the tragic figure behind the matai myth. she's one of the most famous from of the twentieth century mata hari the dancer who was executed as a spy by a french firing squad in one thousand nine hundred ninety. the phrase museum is paying tribute to this legendary figure on the one hundredth anniversary of her death. she so important today because her story has everything. it's captivating and full of intrigue and sex sex. he was born in les warden as moderate. in eight hundred seventy six her father was an affluent have maker who went broke and her mother died young at age eighteen moderator married a much older man and moved with him to what is today indonesia then a dutch colony that's where she learned to perform exotic dances the couple had two children her husband had an affair s