Posted on 01/09/2014 3:28:20 PM PST by Sasparilla
A rich French woman abandoned this apartment in 1942. What they found inside is incredible.
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I might write it as a short story, told by an aging retired WWII veteran, in remembrance of a great love affair related to him by a soldier he helped to recover from the coast of France in 1943. The rescued soldier would have related his love affair with a rich French Lady who harbored him from the Germans when he infiltrated France prior to the allied liberation. ... Come to think of it, the story may already have been written and used as theme for a movie! It sounds so good, it must have already been done.
I was thinking that too. Our house looks like that occasionally!
amazing
Ooo, ooo.... or maybe, the story as recounted to the nurse who cared for the soldier in his last days.
Ah, but then, it's your story. LOL
Now stop that! rofl
is this stuff subject to the 75% tax?
how do these apartments get abandoned in the 30’s and 40’s and just now get opened? I have seen several articles like this over the past 50 years?
Is the law 50 years of non-payment? They must have rent control laws from Satan
the rent was paid?
The headline says it was abandoned
The story says:
“The apartment was able to remain abandoned and untouched because Madame de Florian continued paying the rent until her death in 2010 at the age of 91. Despite paying the rent, she never returned.”
You could have clicked on the story as easily as the rest of us before you commented.
The paintings are exquisite. The vanity? Oh my goodness! Would I love that piece of furniture!!
“abandoned” meams different things to me and the author I guess
I’m not buying it. Not dusty enough
And sometimes it helps to read beyond the headline if you’re truly curious about the story.
I suspect someone has been in there. The peeling and water-stained wallpaper is quite convincing.
I see you already got an answer quoted from the article. Amazingly enough she paid rent for 72 years without making a single visit. What gets me is that, apparently, no one else ever set foot in there. Not even the landlord I guess.
She was using the place for storage?
I really don’t get how people can spend money like that, even if they are rich.
Would love to hear the story about this woman and the apartment she kept for years.
I concur. I know a fellow whose uncle had a similar apartment, also died and left it to him in estate, and it looked the same after about 2-4 years of neglect.
IMHO, somebody else used the place in secret for many years with periodic cleaning and possibly even changed out some pieces for other values.
The socialist inheritance laws probably would have collected many years ago, otherwise.
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