It looks like the apartment, which was not opened since the beginning of the Second World war. Photo

Madame de Florian was locked in his apartment for 72 years..

In 1939, when it became known that Paris will inevitably occupied by the Germans, one young lady rushed to move to the South of the country, where it was quieter. The woman locked her apartment in the capital, hoping to go back when everything calms down. For unknown reasons, the hostess never came back to their apartment, although regularly paid the rent all my life. In 2010, the owner has died. When the heirs crossed the threshold of the unknown to their apartment, their mouths opened in surprise at all.

A landlady named Madame de Florian. She was going in a hurry, so the apartment remained virtually untouched. The relatives of Madame de Florian knew nothing in the apartment, and when they announced the will, was very discouraged. To assess the property, they invited well-known auctioneer Olivier Shopin-Janvry. The man was shaking hands with excitement, when he cranked the key in the keyhole, because nobody was there for more than seven decades.

It was awesome! It seemed as if time froze. On the dresser stood a dusty jars with cosmetics, combs, boxes. On the table were Cutlery. Antique furniture, paintings.

The most expensive lot of the apartment was the picture of a lady in pink dress ($3.4 million). As it turned out, it was a portrait of her grandmother’s landlady Martha de Florian. At the end of the XIX century it was a famous artist. And the portrait belonged to the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. It was also found, and a letter from the artist with love.

Relatives were just shocked by this inheritance, literally fallen to them on the head. However, they could not understand one thing: why, Madame Florian for 72 years, none of them talked about his apartment in Paris.

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