It happened in 1939 when Paris was occupied by the German army. Madame de Florian was 23 years old and, like thousands of other Parisians, decided to leave her apartment near the Opéra Garnier to move to the south of France. It was the beginning of the Second World War and he wanted to get out of the conflict zone.

After the end of the war, Madame de Florian did not return to this apartment, but continued to pay all expenses until the end of her life. In the ninth arrondissement, no one has set foot in an apartment for seven decades.

And the owner died in 2010 at the age of 91, and only then her relatives learned about the existence of this apartment. Relatives went to inventory the goods. It was auctioneer Oliver Chopin Janfrey who opened the apartment doors after a long time and said he felt transported back in time. Sculpted furniture, expensive decorative objects or beautiful paintings were covered with dust, but carefully preserved.

The house was inherited by the grandmother of Madame de Florian – the Parisian actress Marthe de Florian, who became famous at the beginning of the last century for her love affair with the French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau or the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini.

Among the valuables found in the apartment was a portrait of actress Marthe de Florian, made by Boldini and auctioned for 2.1 million euros. It was the only one that was auctioned and the others in the apartment were left untouched.

The house, known as the Time Capsule, is now owned by heirs and is not open to the public. Check out what the abandoned apartment looks like in the video below:

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