Time Travel in Paris

[osprey_archer]

Via sartorias: The Paris Time Capsule Apartment. (My friend Emma tells me that this whole website is full of secret Paris things and urban exploring in general. Clearly I should poke through its nooks and crannies.)

But this article in particular is so cool: an apartment in Paris, which the owner shut up when she fled at the beginning of World War II, was only recently reopened. Can you imagine how amazing it would be to walk into it? Like stepping into the past. I wonder why the owner never returned.

It’s like the beginning of a mystery novel, especially when you factor in the forgotten painting that they found! What kept her away? The owner paid the rent punctually till she died, so she hadn't forgotten about it... it haunted her, perhaps; it holds ghosts, literal or figurative.

If I had any gift for mystery plotting, I would try my hand at it.

Comments

[silverusagi]

I saw that on tumblr. Interesting. Especially the part about how it was abandoned in one sense, but not in the other, since rent was paid.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Yes, that especially is what makes it some like there must be some epic Casablanca-style story behind it: she couldn't bear to go back, but she couldn't bear to let it go.