Marthe Richard

Erich von Stroheim

Marthe Richard's work as a spy is forgotten today in France and she's mainly remembered for a famous law which closed the brothels after WW2;Marthe was a former prostitute herself.Her family was shot during WW1 .She became a spy and ,in Spain, she got from the Germans ,by sleeping with baron Eric Von Ludow, precious information which would help her country.—dbdumonteil