Deadly 1/4 – From her childhood in Valenciennes in the north, Pauline, an e-commerce consultant in Val-de-Marne, has a memory that will give you…
“It didn’t look like much from the outside, though.” Pauline, then 8, remembers very specifically the day she and her family visited this huge house on a very bourgeois avenue in Valenciennes north to run a metal factory, and my parents initially started renting,” he recalls. But my mother, who was very working class, dreamed of owning her own house. So one day we went to visit, my parents, my two older sisters and I, this big house for sale on the same avenue…” three typical 1930s style houses. But once you cross the threshold, there’s the ‘wow’ effect. “You have to imagine three entrances with 4 meter high ceilings, leading to a huge living room with a white and black tile floor, which itself extends to a huge balcony overlooking to the overgrown grove.” With its tall dark firs, “the place was worthy of The Blair Witch Project.”
Pauline’s mother immediately fell in love with this house. His father, less so.
Source: Le Figaro
