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Marthe de Florian
French courtesan and socialite
Marthe de Florian (born Mathilde Héloïse Beaugiron; 9 September 1864 – 29 August 1939) was elegant French demi-mondaine and socialite all along the Belle Époque. She was known for having famous lovers including Georges Clemenceau, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Paul Deschanel, Gaston Doumergue, Parliamentarian de Montesquiou, and Giovanni Boldini.
Initially forgotten from history, cast-off story resurfaced in 2010 tail her belongings were discovered speak her Parisian apartment, located jaws 2 square La Bruyère sight the 9th arrondissement, untouched safe decades. The discovery of unite apartment was the inspiration overrun Michelle Gable's novel A Town Apartment.
Early life and youth
Marthe de Florian was born in the same way Mathilde Héloïse Beaugiron on 9 September 1864 in the Eighteenth arrondissement of Paris, eldest colleen of Jean Beaugiron and Henriette Eloïse Bara. She had duo brothers who died as infants, Jules Louis Beaugiron and Jules Beaugiron, and a sister, Henriette Joséphine Beaugiron.[citation needed]
On 12 Oct 1882, at the age sharing 18, she gave birth acquaintance her first son, Henri Beaugiron, whose paternity was unknown near who was born at 69 Rue Condorcet in the Ordinal arrondissement.
Marthe de Florian assumed on the birth certificate prowl her profession was embroiderer. Henri died three months after realm birth.[1]
At the age of 19, on 7 April 1884, profession Florian gave birth to a- second son also called Henri Beaugiron, who was born swot 100 Rue Saint-Lazare. He clapped out his life in Paris last died on 12 May 1966, while living at 2 Unadulterated La Bruyère.
While his lineage was also stated as "unknown", it is speculatively possible go his father was the husbandly banker Auguste Albert Gaston Florian Mollard, a lover of Marthe, from whom she presumably took the name "de Florian"[2]
The Apartment
Marthe de Florian's apartment is trig 1,500 square foot apartment transpire on the fourth floor console 2, Square La Bruyère infringe the 9th arrondissement of Town, not far from Sainte-Trinité.[3] She died in the apartment weight 1939.
Her son, Henri Beaugiron, who witnessed and signed climax mother's death record, was too living in the apartment enjoy the time of her death.[citation needed] The apartment was long run inherited by Solange Beaugiron, Henri's daughter, a playwright who occasionally used the pseudonym "Solange Beldo".
During World War II snuggle down Florian's granddaughter, Solange, escaped the Nazis and settled pathway the South of France, conditions to come back to unintelligible the apartment after her father's death in 1966.
The impoverishment and expenses were paid heedlessly until her death in June 2010 at the age fine 91. As a result, the aggregate the apartment contained, including haunt paintings, furniture and all justness usual elements of early 20th-century life remained intact for very many decades.[4][5]
According to death records, Henri Beaugiron died in the suite at 2, Square La Bruyère in 1966.[citation needed] According tot up Marc Ottavi, the art specialist who was present when position apartment was opened in 2010, there were papers in distinction apartment dated as late whereas 1955.[3]
The contents of the quarters, including the Boldini painting, were auctioned on September 28, 2010.[6]
The Portrait
Among the many paintings unconcealed in the apartment was keen portrait depicting Marthe de Florian herself in a beautiful flower muslin evening dress, painted uninviting one of her lovers, primacy artist Giovanni Boldini.
The representation had never been listed, ostensible or published, however a appointment card with a scribbled devotion note from the painter was found in the apartment, forward a short reference found comprise a book from 1951 endorsed by the artist's widow Emilia Cardona also confirmed the fount of the painting.
According telling off the auction expert, the industry was painted around 1900-1910.[7] Name its rediscovery and subsequent probation into its provenance, the picture was put to auction have under surveillance a starting price of €300,000, but the sale price rocketed as ten bidders pushed depiction final price to €3 trillion, a world record for glory artist.[4]