100 Years Since Her Execution, Was Mata Hari a Sexy Spy or a Sexy Scapegoat?

100 Years Since Her Execution, Was Mata Hari a Sexy Spy or a Sexy Scapegoat?At nearly every turn, Margaretha Zelle MacLeod made the wrong choices. Yet she managed to create a persona that continues to dance on the crowded stage of popular culture.

ELLEN HAMPTON10.08.17 12:00 AM ET PARIS—

Her name lives on a century after they stood her in front of a firing squad on Oct. 15, 1917, and watched her die: Mata Hari, treacherous spy, devious liar, a wicked woman to the core. Or was she something else entirely? [ . . . ]

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France to make least wine in 60 years as frost, rot hit grapes

jeune femme at wine tasting
jeune femme at wine tasting

[PARIS] French winemakers will produce the smallest vintage in 60 years after spring frost hit vines in Bordeaux, summer storms caused grape rot in Champagne and drought shriveled grape bunches in the country’s southeast.Wine volume will fall 19 per cent to 36.9 million hectolitres this year, equivalent to about 4.9 billion bottles

Source: France to make least wine in 60 years as frost, rot hit grapes, Consumer – THE BUSINESS TIMES

‘Godard is not God!’

 

The women, the films, the fights, the flops … the director of The Artist has risked infuriating France with Redoubtable – a hilarious drama about Jean-Luc Godard.

Full Review: ‘Godard is not God!’ … Michel Hazanavicius on his film about France’s most notorious director | Film | The Guardian

Anne Wiazemsky: a haunting, humane star who helped France discover itself

It’s an uncomfortable irony that, after her life has ended, Anne Wiazemsky risks being seen as a bystander in her own story. In Michel Hazanavicius’s enjoyable but somewhat facetious new film Redoubtable, Wiazemsky, played by Stacy Martin, is depicted as a wry observer in her marriage to Jean-Luc Godard – the straight woman to his tormented clown. | More: Anne Wiazemsky: a haunting, humane star who helped France discover itself | Film | The Guardian