http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...revealed-owner-locked-fled-outbreak-WWII.html
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It was an abandoned apartment left for 70 years and re-discovered its a real time capsule from a bygone age featuring a stuffed ostrich, original micky mouse soft toys, and a painting that just sold for £1.8 million amongst other things, ....like an untouched higher class version of "fur house" in France.
"Caked in dust and full of turn-of-the century treasures, this Paris apartment is like going back in time.
Having lain untouched for seven decades the abandoned home was discovered three years ago after its owner died aged 91.
The woman who owned the flat, a Mrs De Florian, had fled for the south of France before the outbreak of the Second World War.
She never returned and in the 70 years since, it looks like no-one had set foot inside."....
..."The property was found near a church in the French capital's 9th arrondissement, between Pigalle red light district and Opera. Experts were tasked with drawing up an inventory of her possessions which included a painting by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini.
One expert said it was like stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty, where time had stood still since 1900. 'There was a smell of old dust,' said Olivier Choppin-Janvry, who made the discovery"
Added for Krela...
It was an abandoned apartment left for 70 years and re-discovered its a real time capsule from a bygone age featuring a stuffed ostrich, original micky mouse soft toys, and a painting that just sold for £1.8 million amongst other things, ....like an untouched higher class version of "fur house" in France.
"Caked in dust and full of turn-of-the century treasures, this Paris apartment is like going back in time.
Having lain untouched for seven decades the abandoned home was discovered three years ago after its owner died aged 91.
The woman who owned the flat, a Mrs De Florian, had fled for the south of France before the outbreak of the Second World War.
She never returned and in the 70 years since, it looks like no-one had set foot inside."....
..."The property was found near a church in the French capital's 9th arrondissement, between Pigalle red light district and Opera. Experts were tasked with drawing up an inventory of her possessions which included a painting by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini.
One expert said it was like stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty, where time had stood still since 1900. 'There was a smell of old dust,' said Olivier Choppin-Janvry, who made the discovery"
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