Paris Apartment Left Untouched For 70 Years Reveals Socialites Dramatic Past

Her Life

Marthe de Florian became an actress and quickly entered the life of a wealthy courtesan. She had a life full of scandal and love affairs. Henri witnessed his mother’s death in 1939 and signed the certificate. He continued to live in the apartment with his daughter, Solange. That is when they discovered that is the woman who passed away in that small French village. She was an aspiring playwright in her teenage years before the Nazi’s came. Her pseudonym was “Solange Beldo.”

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