Paris Apartment Unopened For 70 Years


For 70 years a Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited, under lock and key, the rent faithfully paid but no hint of what was inside:

“Entering the untouched, cobweb-filled flat was like stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty, where time had stood still since 1900” one expert said about the newly discovered flat in Paris’ 9th arrondissement.

“Mrs de Florian never returned to her Paris flat after the war and died at the age of 91 in 2010. Behind the door, under a thick layer of dust lay a treasure trove of turn-of-the-century objects including a painting by Italian artist Giovanni Boldini.

Read the original blog post here on How to be a Retronaut.

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