After doing some digging on the apt I found this out in joy Madame de Florian was just 23 years old when she fled her Paris home in 1939. The Germans were advancing on the city and they had to leave everything behind. She made her new home in the free zone, outside of Nazi-occupied France, but never returned to her old apartment. It wasn’t until her death in 2010 that her family discovered that she had still been paying rent on the apartment her entire life. An auctioneer, Olivier Choppin-Janvry, was sent to inventory her abandoned home, and what he found was beyond their wildest dreams. Inside the apartment they found priceless art and many other items that offer a very rare glimpse into the past. Madame de Florian’s vanity mirror still waits for her, complete with lotions and potions of all sorts. A vintage Mickey Mouse keeps Porky Pig company in one corner, waiting for a child to come play with them once more. This stunning Belle Epoque-era painting of Madame de Florian’s mother Marthe was painted by the Italian legend Giovanni Boldini. The painting of Boldini ended up selling for $3.4 million at auction. The juicy revelation that the two had been lovers strengthened interest in the piece. The entire apartment is a lovely and tragic monument to a bygone era.

@mikrof467

Жыл бұрын

Somebody has a lot of time on there hands

@NevermindYall

Жыл бұрын

‘Their’

It should’ve been kept as it was. Like a museum of yesteryear.

@michelefred68

4 жыл бұрын

And the first thing these greedy People did was auction everything 😡 did she have family? Makes me sad

@Chilliwack56

3 жыл бұрын

@@michelefred68 It was her heirs (family) that opened the apartment and arranged for any sales. I am sure they kept some things but for the most part I believe they sold a lot so the estate could be distributed in accordance with her wishes.

This would be my ultimate dream come true to find something like this. The closest I have come is when a friend who remodeled on a job noticed the house was smaller inside in one side. She took done the wall to find a completely hidden turn of the century nursey and child's room FULL just as if they built it yesterday and walked out. Come to find out 100 yrs back the owners had a child that died before the age of two and they where so distraught they closed the doors with everything inside and literally walled the rooms off from the rest of the inside of the house and it stayed a secret all those years. The new owners never knowing it was there.

My wonder is did they try to find her family to return her stuff before deciding to auction it all off

@alexnather7614

Жыл бұрын

Greed

@karenwilson9528

2 ай бұрын

It was opened because the lady that owned it, a lady that left Paris in wwii and settled in the South OF France where she inherited the apartment from her father in the 1960's, died. She has kept hold of the appartment because she thought she might return someday. Because she died she stopped paying rent. I gess her heirs opened it up and discovered the time casual.

I would love to visit the place, I think the family should keep it as is and open it up as a museum

That painting was absolutly beautiful.

My grandma was born on August 29, 1926... she's still alive!!😎

@isabellasmith9966

4 жыл бұрын

MashAllah

@Hemasree.K

4 жыл бұрын

Great 👍🏻

@eesha7420

4 жыл бұрын

You kidding me

@isabellasmith9966

4 жыл бұрын

She's only 93 still young 101 is old

@AngelicaLee21

4 жыл бұрын

My grandma was born on the same day as your grandma but in different year. My grandma was 1929.☺️

OMG!!! What a gem!!! I’m just surprised no squatters or vandals ever entered! Extremely beautiful place!!

Wow!Awesome discovery after so long but they should be preserved ..Frozen in time & amazing finds from this apartment!Cool!:)

@Jo-ho2xu

5 жыл бұрын

I like your lizard

I hope whoever got any or all of that stuff truly appreciates where it came from

I really dislike the random pictures Facts Verse throws into their stories. It’s almost impossible to tell which ones are actually from the story and which ones have been thrown in just for effect. It doesn’t seem very honest and makes me wonder just how true are these stories? But then again that’s is isn’t it? They’re just stories.

@eddiel2531

4 жыл бұрын

I said same thing like 4 replies up⬆️

@christineengaenga1249

4 жыл бұрын

Me to ,, I don't like it ,,

@ThomasCorfield

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Why not just film the guy talking?

@eddiel2531

4 жыл бұрын

Now down, but, I said it first, don't know how this person got all the credit, hmmmm

@hamzyjellblog6823

4 жыл бұрын

Correct

This is incredibly interesting and I love discoveries like this . 70 years untouched apartment ...

@bobbiehill536

4 жыл бұрын

H

@beatndagutta

3 жыл бұрын

I really hope she had family that was able to get all this compensation for the stuff in her apartment. Because that's amazing that literally is like a needle in a haystack type gem

I think it's sad that instead of leaving the apartment as it was and making it into an exhibit, people rushed to sell off her belongings to the highest bidder to make a profit. The items only had momentary value to them and nothing sacred or personal. That was quite upsetting.

@Nina-vv3ev

4 жыл бұрын

Blue Sonikku yeah it’s like a museum

@neilhamill318

4 жыл бұрын

I just wrote something similar without seeing what you said first and I agree with what you saying

@geometricart7851

3 жыл бұрын

One of a kind furniture. Lets sell it!

Wow my mom would of loved to see this! May she rest in peace 😢😭

@dennisl.2889

5 жыл бұрын

Ur mom died?! I WILL give a like to make u happy and give u these ---) 🥞🥞🥞🎁🎁🎈🎈

Wow this was beautiful. When i was a kid me my cousins snuck into a great great uncles abounded house and it was something similar. Everything was very old and covered in dust. Closets filled with men and women clothes from 40s and 50s covered in dust. Ill never forget that experience

That must be amazing to find something like that! 😯

I thought u would open the door taking us on a room by room tour but after begging us for a LIKE u went on about Everything BUT a tour of an Old apartment appearing untouched since the birth year of my own father...by coincidence 1939♡

@shawnbonilla4072

5 жыл бұрын

I'll have to think on this one for a bit..

@nikkirosindale7854

5 жыл бұрын

I agree thought we was gonna get a tour but like so many videos it's false advertising

@jiyasaad5872

4 жыл бұрын

Hi

This just convinced me I am now on a world wide search for a very special vanity not unlike the grander of this large oval mirror black one.

This story is SUPER interesting to read about however I highly recommend just googling the story and reading parts of a book written about this online. This video is very misleading and a lot of this info in incorrect. She died in this apartment witnessed by her son in 1939, and her son lived in this apartment himself until his death in 1966. It was inherited by HIS daughter at that time who made rental payments on it until she passed a few years ago. Kind of not as untouched as you think but definitely still so incredibly cool.

@BeckVMH

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I posted elsewhere, web search Marthe de Florian. Totally misleading. Not remotely as represented. Thanks for your synopsis clarifying.

Damn so instead of further preserving this time capsule, they decided to sell the items 😡

@ok-rn2un

4 жыл бұрын

I would've also

@dandfgarage986

4 жыл бұрын

So annoying right

@ashleyklotz3762

4 жыл бұрын

Yea it gets me too, I would've put it in a museum or something.. people are greedy

@NovaBoi7

4 жыл бұрын

@@ashleyklotz3762 why are you going to do when your homeless and you have nothing huh not to mention just for a small room in New York City the rent is $600 per month!

@ashleyklotz3762

4 жыл бұрын

@@NovaBoi7 I actually have been homeless but out of curiousity, what does that have to do with it?

"And plenty of wonderful things came out of it" Me: Like ££?

What I find amazing is how things just decay over time, even in normal conditions, locked away.

@653j521

4 жыл бұрын

Puzzledtraveller They expand and contract, they get moldy and they crack from dryness, they get eaten by rodents and infested by insects. UV rays make drapes and furnishings deteriorate. Every museum must control climate and creepy crawlies.

For those who are interested the apartment was opened by her heirs after her death. They then brought in experts to evaluate the contents which formed a part of their inheritance. While she never lived there again it is incorrect to say that it was never used but rather nothing was changed. There were papers dated 1955 found and her father was recorded as having died there in 1966.

Facts Verse I love your videos they tell me stuff that I have never known before thank for the Smart videos Keep Up All Of The Good Work

I mean you updated your videos and it's more interesting soooooo.....I re subscribed

They shouldn't have separated and sold her stuff...it wud have been more beautiful if it was in a museum.......

@preciouslaura5801

5 жыл бұрын

True

@Nina-vv3ev

4 жыл бұрын

suneetha devadiga exactly what I said!!!

@kennethsrensen7706

4 жыл бұрын

My thoughts too

I LOVE the painting!! Also in Europe they call condos (Owned) apartments as well.

It's such a sad day. All those things should be turned over museum.

I had the stuffed ostrich from 1992 to around 1994, when I had to move and cleared out my stuff. It was the same one from this apartment (there was a certificate), and not degraded in the slightest. I initially bought it for $700 in an auction in Perth.

Wow beautiful absolutely Stunning.. that painting was more than worth that ..and I ain't got 2 pennies to rub together😂😂

Thank you for sharing this exquisite find.

Sad. It should be in museum. Where it can be shown to people. And be preserve well

That was awesome that they found an apartment frozen in time, but why didn't they leave it there? That's someone else's property, I find it very rude they sold that woman's stuff. They should have left it there frozen in time. Although that's just my opinion of course.

@lannie771

6 жыл бұрын

the Lady died.

@shytownmofo

6 жыл бұрын

She died, her heirs probably sold it. Sounds like she was filthy rich, anyways, so the stuff didn't matter to her.

@saint_203

5 жыл бұрын

@@shytownmofo just my opinion bro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@khriztadelosama70

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@allisonhaskell5440

5 жыл бұрын

peachy _ they didn’t just go right in and sale it.. they went thru legal process after all had the key.. so whoever had the key and over the estate handed the key over and sale of property went to family im sure or to charity . No doesn’t need to sit there empty unless someone would come in and buy it all. Just betting Family over seeing it

I just don't see how anybody could've not noticed that apartment was empty all those years. Especially if the whole building is still functioning.

Remarkable. I would love to have been the first person there to see everything on my own. To take the time to admire it all. To carefully handle each piece. And just to think about it and the woman who left it there. Wow. Did anyone ever find out why she left it? It was probably that time got away from her.

ive been looking for this story for YEARS!

Why did nobody go into the apartment, like the landlord?

@Nina-vv3ev

4 жыл бұрын

Anesha *** lazy ?

@FedorManiac90

4 жыл бұрын

The landlord probably died and didn't had any family

@Tmanaz480

4 жыл бұрын

Well...its Paris.

@Mylo12321

4 жыл бұрын

Anesha *** She continued to send payments for the rest of the time until she died. Even though she didn’t live there.

@brickslayerstudio

4 жыл бұрын

True that's on mystery

This channel hasent been watched for 70 years

@curly_chan2002

6 жыл бұрын

79*

@calico2094

6 жыл бұрын

@@curly_chan2002 yes

@richmondsuarez1651

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@amadovalentin6748

5 жыл бұрын

Funny

@motherearth1763

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Absolutely fascinating to see these magnificent items.

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@datuehzan4836

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

Either France doesn’t have a property tax or someone kept up those payments for 70yrs 🤷‍♂️

@Mylo12321

4 жыл бұрын

abu hudhayfah edwards She made the payments herself. Then she died hints the reason people started coming around. She was no longer making payments.

@johannamcleane5759

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mylo12321 Untrue see above reply to Adrianne Jones

@Mylo12321

4 жыл бұрын

Johanna McLeane I recall seeing this a few years ago and it was explained that she passed and after that, payments were no longer made. I guess they were wrong.

I think the apartment and it's contents should have been cleaned, repaired, arranged and kept exactly as it was!

The room looked beautiful

Did she own it? Is that why no one ever went in, in 70 years? Why would she leave those items behind and never look back? 😔

To be honest I think that women Is mad that people are selling her stuff. Her family should have the money not random people living next door. OR AT LEAST TURN IT INTO A MUSEUM XD

@alejandratenorio3110

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry but how she is goin to be mad? Lol.. she is dead and i guess the family was never interested in any of the stuff.

@nunim2496

5 жыл бұрын

People who sold her stuff should not get the money her family should.

*_This narrators voice is so soothing so when I get rich I will pay him to read to me every night before I go to bed..._*

@tlwest21

4 жыл бұрын

The narrorator from Criminally Listed puts me right to sleep!

@johannamcleane5759

4 жыл бұрын

@B Brunson There are many more informative videos available--look on WiKi, some have only photos and text

Can't believe that no one entered this place in 70 yrs. People are curious and always find such places to visit and put their hands on antiques.

someone has been cleaning the house till about 1960. Owner's grandmother, who was a subject of the paintings there, may have owned all the old stuff/ furniture there. That's why stuff looks much older, life from the 19th century. Flat is expensive too, as it is in the heart of Paris.**

Whoa!!!!! That’s along time LOL is it haunted?

the whole video is made out of stock images. Grossly misleading people into watching it.

Those paintings are extremely beautiful.

it's funny. Part of this video is truthful, part of it is poorly researched. Dame Marthe de Florian did not abandon but did die in the apartment on 29 August 1939; her son, Henri Beaugiron (Marthe's last name at birth) witnessed her death and signed the certificate. The woman the narrator is talking about is most likely Solange Beaugiron, who was of the age mentioned and had inherited it from her father, Henri, but it was never her apartment, as she (as author Solange Bellegard) had left for the Nice area. Here's the thing, though: Henri died in the apartment in 1966, and there were papers in the apartment dating as late as 1955, so the apt. was most definitely NOT locked for 70 years...Henri, then Solange, had made sure the bills were paid. There was no reason to enter. I think FV should do a little more research.

@AMadd3RHatt3R

5 жыл бұрын

Damn... Thanks for the REAL facts! This then is just click bait! What a shameful sham. I HATE misinformation! I thought this story seemed familiar... I had heard a different version of it... Is what I thought. Turns out to be a bold face lie... Damn.

@xx_frozen3705

5 жыл бұрын

(AMaDDeR HaTTeR) LOL we love a sarcastic sister.

@bigdog4173

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ru99414

5 жыл бұрын

And what sources are this from? 5min Google search??

@madambutterflynz1804

5 жыл бұрын

Yes click bate it may be but darn that furniture is wow. Selling that painting tho,.....was there no family members who would appreciate it??

wow else wants to discover something like this besides me

@thegreatwisebear

5 жыл бұрын

Johnathan Ballard early mickey mouse

@umabk8386

5 жыл бұрын

Omg

@thegreatwisebear

5 жыл бұрын

uma bk omg early mickey mouse

@jadwigawarsaw5766

5 жыл бұрын

Where was the landlord. Not true story

@spoondippinggoodrecipes7382

5 жыл бұрын

Me

Imagine being the first person to step foot in that apartment since 1939? Marking your DNA in the same places as a muse of a historical painting. Breath taking.

Hard to believe an apartment abandoned for 70 years would not be filled with dust, dirt, and cobwebs.

@subramanianchenniappan4059

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Valid question

@chadnichols5215

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I don’t buy it. SOMEONE would have broke in. 70 yrs is a long time.

Wow this narrator should be immortal

What a wonderful hidden treasure!

Why would you just sell all of that off?? Why not have someone live there and take care of everything there??? ... idk for some reason it just sounds a little sad... Such precious items, beautiful items... Just thrown away for money.

@alyupde9337

5 жыл бұрын

xx WILD xx I don’t know why a family member would want to do that. It is very sad.

@Tusuperbis

5 жыл бұрын

I'd would be sold that stuff in a heartbeat. It was most appreciated by the original owner. Who btw, must not have appreciated it that much to leave it abandoned. Bottom line, it was someone eleses stuff and whomever inherited it would rather sell it to people who could appreciate it.

Wow my husband is an artist and paints like that So beautiful I love old stuff

A truly amazing find !

I bought a abandoned house that was built in 1892 in south side of Chicago, the antique furniture and safes I sold for 168000 dollars, I bought the house for 64000

@patricialarayos3296

5 жыл бұрын

wow

@missyj8546

5 жыл бұрын

You clearly do not value anything.. other than money.. how sad for you.

@brocklanders6011

5 жыл бұрын

@@missyj8546 yea about 267000 so far your just jealous

@keithmartin7831

5 жыл бұрын

I bought one of the safes. Had , I'll say a lot of Coke stock certificates. Let's just say my 4 children and I all retired. And I'm sure my grandchildren all 7 of them will never have to work. We have a gentleman farm/ranch and several vacation homes we take turns living in. Me I'm living in a bunkhouse almost 1,00 square feet. But then I'm a simple guy. Everyone thinks I'm the overseer and that's fine with me. Oh, thanks for the safe by the way. Sure changed my life.

@brocklanders6011

5 жыл бұрын

I should of open the safe

If I was the one who discovered the apartment I'd rather preserved them like how it used to be than put it on a auction or whatever. Just look how classy it was.

She had a beautiful place. Which matched her beauty in the painting. She must have been a wealthy person. I guess there's no heirs. Are they didn't want her stuff. Sad when you spent so many years . Stowed away that somebody could enjoy. All the 70 years just Frozen in Time. Thank you for sharing your video.

The painting is breathtaking

Hmm😏Sounds a bit too good to be true!What about the bedrooms?I guess there wasn't anything interesting in there that's valuable.

She must’ve had a TON of junk mail...

This is so eery that I came across this video right now.. i literally had a dream of something almost exactly like this a few nights ago.. now I'm creeped out😫😫😫😫

Unbelievable!! Absolutely fabulous!!

Wouldn’t the apartment owners have tried to rent that vacant apartment years ago? And the rent was being paid all these years? Very curious

Wow. I think I should hide something in our house.. and wait for decades not to open it... It could be a great treasure hunt for my future kids..

@spadefuraque4073

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@akidawn

4 жыл бұрын

@@boytigs580 is it amazing?!, is it surprising?! is in it?

Love that I often wonder what's behind the walls of those wonderful apartments in Paris

The painting is magnificent

Web search “Marthe de Florian” for other details.

I hate it when something was “shocking” and “no one could believe” it. And especially more when they build it up and tell a story and wait to tell you what the hell was found.

Hi and thanks for sharing this video. Very interesting.

Would be great to see more of the items.

Was expecting actual apartment photos/videos

I love how they bring photos that have absolutely nothing to do with the video.

That's a really nice picture with the wedding dress really beautiful

Omg 😮 could you imagine finding that?

"Wonderful things came out of it" Nope! There are things better left untouched

Mystery solved we found Herbert still in his chair

That is amazing how did that happen....usually the back up of mail or census worker would be like nobody lives here....

very surprised this beutifil home was untouched by Hudlums. everything was so well preserved.. Well done love listening to your story's

It’s a bit rude selling something that belongs to someone else I think you guys should have let the stuff be

@misskeeko

6 жыл бұрын

XxDianaxX ikr!!

@GoddessFourWinds

6 жыл бұрын

The woman was dead. That's how they found the apartment in the first place.

@indigoop

6 жыл бұрын

OMG so rude like I bet her she was just really mad when she walked into her apartment the next day probably like "REALLY IVE ONLY BEEN GONE FOR LIKE 80 YEARS AND THIS IS WHAT I GET LIKE COME ON!"

@annabeths8572

6 жыл бұрын

Tbh😒 I wouldnt even be surprised if each object had a ghost attached to it .🐸☕

@shytownmofo

6 жыл бұрын

Her estate probably sold it. They probably kept anything of value they wanted, and auctioned off the rest.

Not enough footage of the apartment to make a video worthwhile.

My parents coming into my room like

Damn absolutely beautiful

how did no one look in the apatmen for 70 yeas someone had to pay for the room

@dajam9035

6 жыл бұрын

Seriously! It had to have been paid off something.

@salumtummundi9462

6 жыл бұрын

Fools It was theirs, it does not need to be looked or payed. They bought it

@AbbyAndersonsGf

6 жыл бұрын

souldragin 549 maybe they just kept sending the bills and her debt but nothing happened

@AbbyAndersonsGf

6 жыл бұрын

VideoGames Genius yeah but they would still have other bills n shit

@cookiekitygacha3914

6 жыл бұрын

It's their apartment they don't need to paid it

Like vultures picking over a carcass.

@TicTac-g7m

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

That painting is older than the titanic wow

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@bibekananda8564

5 жыл бұрын

1🙂2😒3😚

@Lia-bc9ov

5 жыл бұрын

🙂,😒😚

@disoarsidodesimee9010

5 жыл бұрын

q

@romea472

5 жыл бұрын

Hard was easy still thnx for putting this up

@lauwittony

5 жыл бұрын

I have people searching for likes.

How do you know that abandoned apartment did not open since 1939

@jemima._.6866

5 жыл бұрын

keonclyde demetria probably found it on face book

@angelserial2833

5 жыл бұрын

Did you watch it

@amadovalentin6748

5 жыл бұрын

Right !😆😆

@mariamota4455

5 жыл бұрын

42ga yh x

The advertisement for dis video is worth it

Wonderful video good information well done keep it up

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@invisiblecheetopufffluffie7192

6 жыл бұрын

778 TH

@NatGeodeWild

6 жыл бұрын

Even better

@someone58932

5 жыл бұрын

*h o w*

People pay unimaginable prices for antique furniture like this because the craft is gone. Everything is disposable and contemporary.

Oh my how beautiful

And then there is the guy with the video here on KZread titled, “locked house hasn’t been open in 525 years.”