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HTML:In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.
HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN /> When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.
As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the eraâ??s richest and most powerful men.
But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hariâ??s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
Told in Mata Hariâ??s voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultima… (plus d'informations)
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Dear Mr. Clunet, I do not know what will happen at the end of this week.
Prologue: PARIS, OCTOBER 15, 1917 – ANTON FISHERMAN AND HENRY WALES, FOR THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Shortly before 5 a.m., a party of eighteen men--most of them officers of the French army--climbed to the second floor of Saint-Lazare, the women's prison in Paris.
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"Between us, the evidence we had was so poor that it wouldn't have been fit to punish a cat."
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.
HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.
As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the eraâ??s richest and most powerful men.
But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hariâ??s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
Told in Mata Hariâ??s voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultima
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Hélas, l’auteur retombe encore dans ses penchants à vouloir démontrer ses grandes vérités philosophiques au travers des événements. Monsieur Coehlo, vous ne serez jamais Saint-Ex’, car il n’y en aura jamais qu’un. C’est un peu lassant à la fin (