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 eras richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Matahari‘s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs-Elysees and accused of espionage