Paris Apartment Left Untouched For 70 Years Reveals Socialites Dramatic Past

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Using the key that was in Madame De Florian’s possession, they entered the apartment and assumed they would just get straight to work. The apartment is in Paris’ 9th arrondissement near the red-light district. It was located in a bougie area, so they knew that the old woman possibly had some valuable belongings. But, what they found inside the seemingly abandoned apartment was truly shocking. Auctioneer Olivier Choppin-Janvry said that he felt like they, “stumbled into the castle of sleeping beauty.”

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.