How Her Apartment Remained Hidden For a Century | Marthe de Florian
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2023
- Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode we are looking into the life of the Marthe de Florian a 19th century courtesan and her mysterious apartment which was uncovered in 2010 after nearly a century of being undisturbed.
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This woman fascinates me. I love the portrait in pink. She made a success out of a risky lifestyle. Thank you so much.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t. And believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, just that it would be worth it
A good start, but few things happen for reason.
It's totally not worth it.
"things happen for a reason" is only for those who prefer to believe their life is planned out for them by someone else.
Those of us who think otherwise can take comfort in the fact that tomorrow is unwritten and our choices are our own.
You must have lived a wonderful life to say that. Doesn't fit into my life experiences at all & I'd never dare to suggest that the tragedies that occurred to me or to others around me (some violent, some at the hands of others, some children) "happened for a reason".
....these are things said by people with "sitcom" lives, who maybe experienced "a very special" episode or two. Consider yourself lucky n be grateful, because that philosophy wouldn't facilitate survival outside of your lucky life world. Seriously be grateful.
@@r3db0x I love how people who don't believe in something come forward to tell people who do believe it, just what they think and why they think it, it's the stupidest thing ever.
Don't care what you believe but it's obvious you enjoy making up stories about people & judging yourself superior. How very special 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂
I wish they had made her apartment a museum
I agree with you. It’s a shame that everything was sold off after being preserved as it was for so long.
Exactly. Incredible that they didn't! Especially since, judging from apartments up for sale, almost nothing seems to remain of Belle Epoque Paris today.
Imagine being able to walk in to that apartment before everything was sold.
I would feel "at home." I love that stuff!
Why on EARTH would they do that? They should have cleaned and restored the pieces and turned it into a museum! We may never find a place like that again! How could they do such a disgraceful thing to a piece of history like that? I am so upset.
Greedy opportunists. Money always wins when people who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. There are more of them in the world than there are people like you. And me. 😭
@@elenalatici9568 because if it was left to either of you two in a will, you would have ploughed in your money to run it as a museum and never sold anything........... 🤣🤣🤣
I agree, I’m get deeply saddened by destruction of amazing artifacts and architecture..I recently watched as they bulldozed a beautiful old home( probably in excess of 100 years old) to the ground. It broke my heart. It’s now parking
Money
Greed
They should have taken some high res close up pictures and put out a book about it! Would be amazing to see what they found!
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That portrait is stunningly gorgeous - what a dream to see that apartment!
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I’d kill to see her apartment. The Belle Epoque is my favorite time in Parisian history. Thanks for such an interesting lesson in history!
Thanks for watching!!
I would a well!!! I love this time period. It was incredible!
Kill......... Foolery, very apt
If she really would have great life she would own a *house* with a BIG yard. Thats the sucess.
Appartment is nothing.
But house is the BIG deal.
Such an interesting story and what an amazing life she led. I had heard of the apartment through the internet, but I never knew the full story, thank you so much for making this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I would LOVE to discover a time capsule room like that!!!!
They should have given it the museum treatment and recreate the apartment or left it untouched and added plexi walk through's. A shame things were sold off.
Agreed this is one of those things that I loved about south Korea where some things are Kept as is. My grandpa actually his room and office are both kept as is from the 1960s and at the height of politics in Asia felt like a time capsule too.
I remember when the apartment was opened, but knew nothing of the original owner, so this was interesting. Thank you.
I'm surprised the nazis didn't loot it.
Glad you enjoyed!!
@@kina18, if her son was living relatively low key in the years immediately after her death, he likely wouldn’t have been on their radar. If he gave them no reason to be interested, they wouldn’t know what he had from her.
I've heard this story before; of how she left her apartment untouched. What an intriguing site it was, to go back in time with all the surroundings of antiques.
Like a time capsule.
Wow. I just wrote, "like a time capsule" the same time the Narrator said that. Amazing..
She may have also been an inspiration for Prout's character, Odette de Crécy - a courtesan, who also appeared in a famous "Lady in Pink" portrait in the novels.
This is such an interesting story! I read about the apartment when it was first discovered but thank you for all the details. Excellent as usual.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember the first forgotten history video I came across... it only had a few dozen views or so at the time, but it was a great video about a rather obscure figure, so I'm really happy to see you're having such success with your channel, you so deserve it!
So the granddaughter had no children? Who received the money from the estate? This video was so beautiful, the paintings shown were exquisite. I really enjoyed this video. From previous videos all I can say is there must have been many courtisones in Paris in the 19th century
I imagine the government.
Most of the paintings were not from the apartments. They were Monet's, Chagall, Sargent, Oskar Kokoschka, etc, paintings from the era used as illustrations.
I wondered the same thing
The granddaughter left everything to a grocer in the village she lived and died. He took great care of her when she was ill and too old.
You have a very nice voice and you have a lovely way of telling a story. Thank-you, lovely to watch.
I am keeping this. All those famous names and in Paris at that time. I keep gasping. She must have been beautiful. I wonder if she saw the famous artists and dancers at the Molan Rouge. Is it possible she saw Toulouse Lautrec?. Such a wonderful and intresting life. I cant thank you enough......this is special.
I love to see how buildings and houses were the actual inside from centuries ago
Very interesting. Hopefully they can glean more about her from the correspondence left in the apartment. Would love to see more of it. Thanks for sharing. 💝
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Great video! I enjoyed learning about this. Fascinating to know that someone can just die one day and their residence can become a time capsule like that. We're out here trying to explore the deepest depths of the oceans and uncovering caves we've never seen before while modern day living has it's own amazing discoveries like this as well!
The photographs and paintings that you show while you do the story really beautifully accentuate
Thank you. Very interesting. i will subscribe. The portrait of her is absolutely stunning. It conveys not only her beauty, but also her joie de vivre. One of the most beautiful portraits I have ever seen. Thanks again.
Probably one of the most fascinating testimony you have recited! Thank you.
Loved this video! I had not heard about her and the apartment discovery but what a treasure! I’m sure it was like stepping back in time. Wow!
Thanks very much!!
Absolutely love when i see a new video from you. Your voice is softer and clearer. Always a great surprise with variation of stories. Thank you FLives
Thanks as always 😁
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Great pleasure! 😀 Thank you!
Oh, to be allowed to just quietly spend a day exploring the apt. Heaven.
What an enchanting apartment it's a shame her granddaughter didn't hv any interest in the beautiful things her grandma had n treasured. Time certainly stood still in there.
Your videos are a lovely break from a busy work night, very calming and informative. Thank you for your work!
So nice of you, thank you :)
Stellar work on this most intriguing lady. I was unaware this most remarkable woman, thank you for bringing her back to life.
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If the invading Germans had found that apartment, everything would have been cleaned out. I watch many videos on abandoned places, and marvel, how places, can go for years with no one ever visiting, or seeing the inside of. That there wasn’t any water or rodent damage, is also surprising.
If u haven't done it already the story of Evelyn Nesbit is super interesting!
Just spent some time catching up on some of your videos.(Work had kept me busy)I’ve followed you pretty much since the beginning and I still adore you,your insight and your voice. Thank you for always making history interesting! 🖤
Thanks for the support, appreciate it!!
Really enjoyed this post. Excellent content as usual. Your voice is so soothing & accent is perfect with the French words. Thanks again
I saw her apartment In an older video. Tfsharing your experience with more information.
Thanks Flives💗✌🏼💗
Yes I remember seeing this Apartment before but I can’t remember where ❤🤷♀️
My pleasure!!!
I love each and every video you put out. This is such a treat! ❤️
Thank you so much!
What a fascinating, exciting life she led!
Thank you.
Thank you for your well explained and well spoken history lesson.
What a pity the apartment was not made into a museum, which before discovery is exactly what it was.
Good wishes from New Zealand.
It seems that both Mathilde and her surviving son had such a profound disinterest in post-1914 life that the neither seemed to have updated their abode with televisions, radios or possibly even a telephone since none of those items are pictured among the Belle Epoque living museum that was their apartment- despite her son living all the way to 1966 into his 80s! I wonder what Solange's mother must have thought about the place and was she still living at the time of Mathilde's 1939 death? Maybe that's why Mathilde's granddaughter Solange kept it sealed and appears to have never visited it.
What a fabulous find… and a VERY enlightening video about a fascinating part of Parisian life…
Nice work!
Well done finding this story, you really did your homework.
Gonna give this one a second watch.
Thanks.
Awesome, thank you!
Wow! Yet another great story! Thank you!!
Que historia mas interesante, recuerdo cuando descubrieron ese apartamento en 2010, ahora se sabe quien fue su propietaria. Que epoca de esplendor fue la Belle Epoque.
I love your videos! I spent the whole day today watching all your videos……..such a treasure! Thankyou. I am all caught up
Wow, thank you!
Truly a fascinating story! Thanks for sharing! 💯❣️
This video was fabulous……….Thankyou!
This was very educational!
This was sooo intriguing. Loved it.
we all love a good time capsule
I love your content, thank you.
Absolutely brilliant ❤
Love your work.
Absolutely fascinating. Thankyou!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this excellent historic video!
Thanks to Forgotten Lives for another great case
Such an interesting true life story. What a wonderful time capsule to discover.
Thank you for this video
A fascinating tale of an unusual life - and then what happens in succeeding generations.
Always interesting
Thank you
Peace 💕🇺🇲
Fascinating.
Fascinating report and I have wondered for years what was the story of the person who lived there.
Great vid, thanks.
Wow that's really awesome!
Amazing story. I really love this channel, "Forgotten Lives."
Hi you have no idea how happy I became when I saw a new video from you. Thank you 🙏
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Thank you!
Her apartment the very definition of a hole-in-the-wall. A furnished hole-in-the-wall.
Very cool Thank you!
Thank you too!
Cool story. Thank you.
Wow, thanks👍🏼
Enjoyed subscribed.
Me too 😊
Beautiful story!
Reminds me of Mathilde Willink, wife of painter Carel Willink.
That was fascinating
Great story
THANK YOU SIR ❤
Most welcome!
Do you know what finally became of her apartment? Was it sold and developed?
Queen Louise of Sweden next please!
She was one of the more forgotten queens and overshadowed in history by her siblings Princess Alice of Battenberg and Lord Louis Mountbatten despite being queen of Sweden.
She deserves better!
WOW - that was interesting...!
A lesser known subject of the "Mandells Effect":
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" was originally, *"The Portrait of Dorian Gray"*
A queen, a real queen! Merci
Very interesting, indeed,
wonderful
😮 whoa wow 👀
Beautiful
I always look forward to watching these interesting stories. Thanks!
The mid and late 1800's was probably a wonderful place to live in London and Paris if you had cash in your pocket.
For sure
But these days LA is the best place to live.
T have your own house in LA would b good.
Solange might make an interesting episode, if there is enough about her.
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Interesting story. I must have missed why she abandoned it and where did the money from the auctioned item go?
She moved abroad for safety and stayed away I think
Actually he said that she died there. Her son continued to live there.
I think police took the money
I would love to see a video on gertrude sanford legendre … American heiress, explorer, socialite, and spy
Was the aesthete Robert de Montesquiou really her lover? He was well known to be homosexual. Apart from Dorian Gray and the Baron de Charlus, he also inspired the character of des Esseintes in Huysmans's "À Rebours."
Having listened to the recitation of liaisons among the beau monde of the belle époque, I am amazed that they did not all go down with syphilis. Perhaps many of them became as much in thrall to Mercury as they had been to Venus.
He might have been bisexual or even experiementing.. maybe pansexual.
👍Wish I had thought of that witty comment!
I got a suggestion do the one about princess wales or grace
So, nobody obviously pays property taxes there, because otherwise the place would have been discovered prior to 2010. Or the children were so wealthy they could afford to keep the place vacant for close to 100 years. So bizarre.
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Whats the name of that stunning building?
Thank you for this very interesting peak into the life of another person from another era.
Interesting my parents have a couple of his paintings.
Very interesting thank you.
BTW that was a stuffed emu, not an ostrich 🙂
Yes, it has three toes, not two like an ostrich
Yes, it has three toes, not two like an ostrich
Magnifique video!! Did Solange has children?
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Whats the name of that Beautiful Building?
What is she holding in her left hand at her bosom? Thank you.