Demimonde

Image: The Telegraph

I came across this article about a demimondaine who left her Parisian flat for the south of France before the Second World War and never returned.

70 years later, Mrs. de Florian's untouched apartment is an art collector's sleeping beauty fairy tale. But I'm far more fascinated by the extraordinary tale de Florian lived when she left the 9th arrondissement behind.

Time stood still. She didn't.

I am leaving my Westboro apartment behind this week to begin my own demimonde adventure.