Julie Wheelwright

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526 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Supersluts of History: First World War Spy Mata Hari · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Oh, wow.

So it was extraordinary when these letters were published in 2017, because I was actually in Leeuwarden because the Fritz Museum was having a big exhibition to mark the centenary since Mata Hari's execution in Paris.

And it was just when all the stories about Me Too were beginning and Harvey Weinstein and

And I just couldn't believe how stark the parallels were between what Matari was describing in Paris in 1903 and what some of the victim-survivors of Harvey Weinstein were.

She would go to auditions and they'd say, well, you know, you've got a very pretty voice, but, you know, I expect something in return.

It was very blatant.

And one of the artists that she sits for was named Ferdinand Cormor,

who had a very significant atelier artist school in Montmartre.

And he tells her as well, you know, this is what I'll pay you for sitting as an artist model, but I'll pay you a whole lot more and you can make a lot of money.

You know, if you do these little favors for me and for my clients.

So again, yeah,

You know, it's very clear that this is a transactional relationship and she kind of holds out.

But, you know, at times she has no money, not just no money, but also in her mind, her choices are either going back to Amsterdam and the humiliation of that and also being broke.

And what is she going to do there?

Or staying in Paris and kind of following this dream.

So...

She, through her contacts, through her artist contacts, she meets a man, Monsieur Guimet, who is an industrialist and he has a museum which is devoted to Asiatic art.

And he regards himself as an educationalist and he's traveled all over Asia.

And he traveled with an artist and the artist made all these drawings of dances that he had observed in India.

amongst other Asian countries.

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