Julie Wheelwright
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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And we know now that a lot of that fantasy can be traced back to Georges Ladoux, who was the head of one of the spy bureaus
in France, who actually came up with this idea.
He was the one that had proposed this arrangement with Mata Hari.
He's a piece of work, isn't he?
Yeah.
And he also did this with another woman, a French woman named Martha Richard, who he hired as well.
So something that's really important about this story is not only that this fantasy grows up, but
how the fantasy grows up.
And one of the ways in which this idea gets out there and stays out there and is still with us today is through Georges Ladoux's writing about Mata Hari and Martha Richard after the war.
So there's all these men, sort of ex-agents and spy writers who really control this narrative.
So we have very little from the women themselves.
And so I think that we have to look at what Mata Hari said about herself,
although one of the problems we have with her is often she lies, but just sort of parsing through her own words and what she understood was going on in terms of what she was doing with men, how she felt about her sexuality, but also how she used it as a sort of vehicle.
So women, so many women have to do, but understanding, you know, at that time, women has so few options to support themselves.
She starts in a town called Leeuwarden in Friesland.
In fact, Leeuwarden is the capital of Friesland.
So that's the province in the very north of Holland.
And her father was a hat maker.
And I have this idea that she probably...
You know, spent time in his shop and could look at magazines about Paris.
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