A legendary 'femme fatale' renowned for her exotic dancing in Paris and her many lovers who included ministers, industrialists and generals. When the war broke out she became a spy for the Germans, acquiring secrets from Allied officers who she slept with.
Margaretha was eventually exposed as a spy and executed by a firing squad of twelve soldiers outside Paris at the Chateau de Vincennes. No-one came to claim her body, which was sent to the school of medicine in Paris for lessons in dissection. Her head was preserved at the Museum but later disappeared.
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