So welcome back everybody to the Bros Of Decay. I'm Lesley and today I'm going
to take you on another adventure to a beautiful picturesque abandoned place. I just woke up in this French town the sun
is coming up, you can see the castle there in the background, this place is just magnificent. But this is still pretty far away from the location that we are exploring today,
so that's why we woke up so early in the morning because we have to make the way over
there before everybody wakes up. So let's go now right now and let's
see what this place has to behold. Okay I just arrived in the town you
can hear the bells of the church ringing behind me and it's pretty early
here all the people are still asleep, we don't want to disturb anybody,
but you also don't want to be seen. We just arrived at a place it's
over here, completely overgrown and left behind, look at this! It seems to be open just about there. Okay, good morning thank you very
much, let's go into this place. Mr. Jean-Louis is a descendant from the
Depont family that has been living in this picturesque French town since
the beginning of the 16th century. The family Depont still resides in town but
Jean-Louis passed away around a decade ago, however, nobody seems to care about the
belongings and memories that he left behind. Many people around town speculate that
it's due to the shocking and dark display of taxidermy animals that can
be seen throughout the house. Jean-Louis started becoming obsessed with hunting after his wife passed away
and his children moved out. He was a very secluded person and could mostly
be found inside his home or in the nearby forest. His house is a reflection of him
and tells a much deeper story than we would have ever expected
when we first walked inside. Let's go through what remains and let's
put the pieces of the puzzle back together. So, I just found the entrance to this
abandoned mansion, we have to crawl through the doorway over here to get into the
place of Jean Louis the abandoned mansion. I'm quite excited to explore this
one we just entered into the kitchen and let's start exploring this incredible place. So everybody let's start off this
exploration here in the kitchen of the place where the bellies were filled
by the misses of the house. And actually, the story of this place is
quite shallow so I hope to find out more what happened to these people
while going through this house. We see a beautiful exhauster
with a fireplace underneath that would light up this room
when these people had dinner. Oh I immediately see this cabinet
as well that catches my attention, look at the carvings on there, just amazing to
see, all the plates are still stored inside. Let's look underneath, some
animal carvings on there. A build-in cabinet here to the side of us, with even the plates and the forks
and spoons still left on there. And that's gonna lead us into one of the
most fascinating rooms of this entire house, but be aware viewer discretion
is advised for this room, so if you can't handle taxidermy
animals you have to look away right now. This room that we are standing in right
now was Jean-Louis his proudest room, he was a fervent hunter throughout
his life and loved to shoot animals. And he proudly displayed them very
disturbingly even throughout this room, let me turn up the light a little
bit that you can see this all better. It's actually in my opinion quite disturbing how the animals are displayed in here,
but we're gonna see it right now. On the middle of the table, he had a fox,
you can even see the straw in his mouth wow, The table where guests would be welcomed
for dinner and I would have to look at the taxidermy animals that are
displayed throughout this room. We got a beautiful chair underneath
the table, let's put this back nicely. And then above the table, you
have an incredible chandelier with crown molding that's up there
in the ceiling, beautifully designed! And here to the side of it we
have an incredible cabinet, wow. An Italian marble top above it, oh this is like
a little dinner plate this is like the little menu that's in here maybe from a restaurant
that's nearby, where he loves to go to. All the plants are also still in here and
they seem to be real plans actually, wow so it might have not been abandoned for so long. Above the door over here you have a beautiful
deer head displayed and also have a look at the wallpaper all throughout this
room, it's also very fascinating. I'm gonna show them all to you in detail. And look at the spider webs that are
covering the sides of this room as well. and this one I find very much disturbing
we have a fox hanging on the plate by a little straw, oh my god his
tongue is hanging out of his mouth. And spider webs are covering him for
years that he's been hanging here, crazy! Beautiful curtains on the
wall, beautiful blue curtains. People back in the day of course
smoked a lot of cigarettes, so we're gonna see a lot of ashtrays
throughout this house as well. Here we have another one of those
foxes hanging from the plate. French countryside, two women
by the water chatting away. And then we have a fireplace that would
have lit up the room back in the day. That must have been such an
amazing feeling being in this room. A clockwork above the fireplace here,
the woman sitting there beside it. And over here to this side got a pheasant. I love how this man is casually sitting
there, with a pipe in his mouth. Another cabinet. Oh my god, I didn't even see this one, there
are two squirrels with knives in their hands with swords actually, having some sort of a battle of the century, look at that
it's just a crazy setup, wow! So lovely when you explore abandoned
places to see things like that. And then we wander into the hallway of the house,
it's a chandelier with beautiful crown molding above it and here the people used to come into the
house, welcome the guests, look at this hallway! And that takes us into another sitting area
that's also completely filled with artifacts from back in the day and luckily it didn't
display that many taxidermy animals in this room. I love the setup that's here
in the middle of the room with the chairs around the little
table, the people that once lived here would have coffee and tea and liquors that in the
evening together on these beautiful red chairs. Wow, let's have a look at the paintings
that are displayed here to the side. Oh, this one also has amazing wallpaper. Again so many spider webs in this room as well. Oh my god! Is this a washing bear? Literally translated from dutch is a washing bear but I don't
know the exact name of this animal. But it's very cruel how they
used all these animals to do make furniture throughout the house, for example, the squirrels that were in there that were
having a battle and this one is holding a plate. Nowadays we would call this animal cruelty. Beautiful curtains in this room. And then we have fire screens to the side
here of dutch country land my own home country with the windmills, but they most likely
also had them over here in France. Wow, I'll have to see this, and over here we have
a little display with some children's pictures. Child reading a book in the display cabinet underneath and unfortunately I've not found many
documents yet of the people that once lived here, only the artifacts that are left behind in
this house tell the story of these people. Have a look at this fireplace it's just
amazing completely made out of marble, wow. And then on top of the fireplace, we have again
another clockwork, beautiful marble clockwork. All the artifacts are on there. Some guy holding a hat, I
don't know what's in there. Oh, look at these vintage pictures I just
love them, the man with the beard and then he had a cat in there, a young lady,
a church that's completely destroyed. Those are the pictures that I want to
see and maybe they had something to do with the family, a painting above here. I would love to transport myself back
into time and be with these people. Birds drinking away. Somebody loved paintings
and countrysides in France with boats all around most
likely it was Jean-Louis himself. Now we have a big sofa to decide over here
and have a look at these chairs as well they are just wonderful. And we have one more side table to the side here. Wow, what a place I can't get enough of it and then we enter back into the hallway,
but it's not time yet to go upstairs. Ohh, Celine is sitting there as well, but
we first want to have a look in the room over here, but that is completely locked, so we
gotta go outside again to look into that room. Okay we're now outside again because to
get to that room that I just pointed out, we need to go to the back of the house,
and over here you can see a shutter that's closed and that's the
only way to get into that room. So let's open it up right now
and let's head into that room. I'm going to ask you Celine to please
hand me the camera while I go in there, here you go, let me try this out! Oh my god, this one's actually quite
fascinating, wow, thank you very much! Oh and that's the room that we couldn't
enter into from the other side. It seems like another dining area or
it seems like the only dining area in this place, we have not
seen another dining area. But this one also displays a grand piano
to the side, look at this wonderful piece! So the people that lived here also
love to play music in their spare time. Let's see if it still works, this
one seems to be completely broken. Wow, candle holders, candles would be lit here
in the evening, "La Mysterieus" it says on there. Look at the Chinese vases that are up here. And even still an oil lantern
left to the side of it. And in this room, we also have a grand
fireplace to light it up in the evening. I love the design on it! This man was so much into animals, actually
yeah I told you before I don't like the way he treated the taxidermy animals we also
had lots of displays like statues of dogs all throughout his house, so he cared
for some animals but not for all of them. Beautiful mirror above it and the wallpaper
in this room is also quite fascinating, flowers on the walls. Underneath it, we have an upholstered
chair a wonderful upholstered chair. Music notes again "La Priere D'une Vierge". Just opened up for us you can
see the plates that they used when guests came over, fancy plates, let's
see what's on there, these are made in France. Probably very expensive china!
Look at the spider webs that are covering this
table over the years that this place is abandoned. To the side of it, we have another
wonderful upholstery chair. And then look at this display cabinet that's next to it, this is one of the most
beautiful ones I've most likely ever seen. A little holder here, most likely for
treats that they would put on a table. What's in here? More china for
the guests and crystal glasses to give the guests, some
beautiful wine from the region. We have even more music notes over
here, to play on the grand piano. Oh, I love this hat as well,
this looks like a hunting hat, 1863, it's maybe like a hunting cult that
it was part of that this hat was from. And then in the middle of the
room, we have the table still made for two people, two chairs around
it for two people to have dinner. The vinegar vials are still on
there with the glasses around them. Wow, what a place everybody, and then
little chandelier, it's not actually a chandalier, it's just a lamp, but with a Chinese
design on it and crown molding on the ceiling. One last overview of this room! And now it's time to head back into
the house, of course, we can't do this through this door because it's completely
locked, but we're gonna go back outside and show you the upstairs floors right now. So we just saw the incredible
downstairs area of John Louis, his home. But now it's time to venture up there up
this winding staircase that's gonna take us to the upper floors and this over here was the
door that was just behind the beautiful room. But completely locked and people have
tried with all these different keys to open this door, but they didn't succeed. Over here we had a little
sitting area in the hallway, let's see what's behind this little doorway. Oh, there is this storage space and you can
see part of the tinted glass window here. And shoe boxes with shoes of
Mr. Jean-Louis still left here. You can see these were in euro, wow they were pretty expensive 318 euros, but
on top of it, it says that in frank's FR 701.87. That's the old French currency. Oh and even he had still some feathers left
with the taxidermy that he did in this place. Let's slowly back out of this oh and let
me also show you the intriguing design on this stairway, it's quite magnificent,
leading all the way up there. A little blue on the front of the stairway
as well and with that, that leads us up the stairway, I just adore all the
wallpapers throughout this place. For the lovers, I will show you the stained
glass window, with the birds painted on there, and spider webs now covering it,
what a place everybody, what a place! I have to go closer on these hand railings
because they are just so magnificently designed. And here we enter on the first
floor of the house, with all-around this flower wallpaper plastered on the
walls, the first room let's have a look. But what we do see is this
beautiful crib, a child's crib. With knives and carvings on
the bed frame with two angels. And here we have a vintage train set. Look at these train rails. I just love this one look at this
locomotive, probably fully handmade, wow! Those are the things that I want to
encounter while I'm exploring, old toys of children back in the day and beneath
this all, the bed is still made. Over in this room, we also had
a fireplace because this house doesn't have central heating on the upper floors, so fireplaces were necessary back when the
house was built and still now as you can see. The vase on the side of it and
we got it seems like a lizard a taxidermy lizard, but it's probably a
special kind look at the stings on his tail. There's a mirror underneath here, okay still
some beautiful things to see in this room. A high chair for a child, but I'm not
gonna spend any more time in this room. Let's go further to the
one across it and let's see what's left behind in this one
and this one is quite magnificent. Still made beds, this house is in such
a pristine condition, I just love it! So I just closed the door over there, because
I want to enclose this space a little bit. This was a private space for the person
that once lived here, this was his room, he slept here for many many years, maybe
even 20-30 years this was his place. His memories are left behind in here, so we can
get a sense of how this person lived in this room. So when he came in here at night the
first thing he did was most likely undress and put his clothes on the coat
hangers that are here on the door. We got a coat, a man's coat still hanging
here wow, isn't that just amazing? And then we have a drawer to the side, in
here are most likely his socks and underwear and on top of there, I see a jug that would
be filled up with water to my knowledge. You can see there's some tin in there,
yeah I think you could put some water in here maybe pour yourself a
glass of water in the evening. We also have a picture frame over here of Lourdes,
Jean-Louis and the people that lived here were most likely very religious French
people, like we mostly see. I love the drawer it's just
fascinating, there's even a key on here. And like I said this opens up to reveal,
uh they are not sucks in underwear, we see some gloves over here and we see
some other things that he would have worn. Let's try to close this up
again and let's go further. As always people back in the day also used to
smoke a lot, so two ashtrays were in this bedroom. I wonder if somebody would smoke
in this bedroom back in the day, that seems very disgusting to me right now, but if anybody that's watching this video can let
me know that, did people smoke in their bedroom? We have a fascinating closet over here,
beautiful design on the crown of it, wow let's open this one up to see. It's completely filled with I think these are curtains,
these are definitely rings of a curtain, wow! Shoes and all these different things. Let's close that up. I have another closet in the
other corner of the room. Completely filled! A bold head of the person that
once slept here, I love it! What I also want to point out
in this room is the wallpaper, look at the flowers that are designed onto it,
perfectly plastered on the wall, just perfectly. And then we have the bedroom itself, the bed
itself, the place where the person slept. With these two toy horses in front
of it, they have even have wheels underneath and they once used to be
of the children of Jean Louis, wow! Oh, there is a radiator in this room,
yes there is, just behind there. But we also have a fireplace from the early days
left in here, with some copper statues on there, beautiful dog. Oh this reminds me of my own country, we call this "Manneke Pis", I don't know
what is exactly translated to English, but it's a boy that's peeing and it's a famous
statue in the capital of my country Brussels. Oil lantern and then a little boy
with a goat, beautiful statue again, wow isn't that one just amazing? A mirror above it displays the room. This looks like a little drawer here... Oh my god! Do you hear this? No way there's like a musical instrument in this drawer, oh you would wind it up and
then it plays a little song when you open it up. I literally love that! I'm spending too much time in this bedroom, but I don't mind, I just love to
see the things that are in here. A little girl with some flowers and
a thinking face, a vase underneath. And then we have some hats
left behind, wow what's this? Looks like something you would give as a
present, it's like a wrapper around it. And we have another lady's bold hat underneath, religious symbols all plastered over the
bedroom, and of course, a still made bed with an incredibly huge pillow actually. Very springy! Wow and I also love the light switches
that they would have on these beds. Very handy! Nightstand with again a beautiful copper statue and I can also see a picture
of a child behind here. Maybe she used to sleep in this room but later on the man's clothes
were there, so that's also quite interesting. And then we have the nightstand itself. These are probably religious
books and the chamber pot in the nightstand of course, for when
you had to do your duty at night. Okay what a fascinating room, I want to play the
little drawer one more time to end off this room. Wow and that leads us again to the hallway
and I think I'm gonna go right first because the one in front of us was
most likely the bathroom. But for some sort of weird reason people
have overthrown this place, but now we venture into another room of this house. Okay, this one is very different,
the other one was blue all around this one has flower designs
all over the wall, incredible! Let me first show you the wallpaper in this
room because that's also very very fascinating. Okay and now we have a closet in the corner and I'm just thinking of who would have slept in
this room or would have slept in the other room. This one is again filled I think these
were tablecloths or something I'm not sure, a lot of accountancy books are
also still left in this place. Let's close that up! And then we have a fireplace again next to
the bed and they all seem to be very similar maybe they got them in discounts
somewhere in the store back in the day. Seems to be ashes in front of it, from
the last time that this one was lit up and then we have a copper statue on top of
the fireplace of a girl looking at an animal. Look at this! And in this room, we have an amazing upholstered chair, where the people at night could
hang up their clothes for the morning, that's what they would do they would put their shirts and
their trousers and everything on this chair. Painting on the wall and in the corner of the room there is a very dirty display area,
with a statue in there, look at this! I don't know what this all is and I don't want to touch it because I don't
want to destroy it of course. All these little nicknacks on there, little
statues all made from porcelain I can see, they are quite fascinating! And then on the nightstand, we have
a picture of a child, a little girl, and this jewelry box from 1934. Michelle the 18th of October 1934, in
1934 she got this incredible piece. The bed itself is still made, there seems
to be some sort of a marine head on there, let me see this marine hat. Okay, there's like a little, what's this?
little emblem of the marine I think. In front of the bed we yet again have one of
those toys, one of those horse strollers or how would you call it, it's not
something you could sit on or anything. But you could tuck it around throughout the
house and that's what the children would do. And I at first thought that this was a vanity,
but this is just a drawer with a mirror above. I don't think it's something that a woman
would sit in front of in the morning to make herself beautiful. We got this beautiful lady on the Chaisse Lounge statue, another jewelry box that's also
completely empty, a child's picture back here. Oh look at this fascinating piece and this is
like a little calendar that displays the months and the days wow there's like a deer on there. Those are the days in French, Oh if you
turn it around, it displays the days. I immediately figured it out, okay I think
it's a little bit broken by now, it still functions a little bit, wow
what a fascinating piece. The things you can find in these places,
keep surprising me after doing this for eight years, yes everybody, if you don't
know I have been exploring abandoned places around the world from when I was 16
years old, now I turned 24 in July. So 16 years old, eight years ago
I started this hobby and I still am every time amazed by what I find
out when I go through these places. Little alarm clock on the nightstand wow. And then here in here though there was
some medicine it's just some paperwork and a spray for the shoes. And then a little holder for the walking canes Okay, another bedroom covered and
let's have a look at it again, yes I just don't know who slept in this place,
there are also no clothes left so I can make an assumption if this was a girl's room or a
boy's room or a man's room or a woman's room. And now we are wandering into
the last room upstairs here and I assume we have not seen a master bedroom. Yes, this definitely was Jean Louis his room,
where he slept together in with his wife. Let's close up the door behind us
to get that enclosed feeling again, wow what a fascinating room
have we just entered into. I just love the wallpaper again and
this one as well very bluish wallpaper always gives these places a very warm feeling. Okay, and here to the side Jean Louis had his
desk where he most likely did his important work for the province or his accountancy
just for the house, we will never know. A beautiful upholstery chair that's left up here. Wow, look at this all the books, these are military books it says on there. We have a frame hanging from the wall over here with some flowers painted on
there, margarita it says on it. Little boxes in here, with different appliances, oh these are underwear, these
were his underwear lovely to see. And then we have a radio, a vintage radio
made in Italy it says on there and behind it, we have some sort of a military picture,
maybe even a representation of Jean Louis. Lovely to see, look over here we have
another display area and these are all religious symbols from Lourdes, from the
cave, and Lourdes where Maria arose again. It's amazing to see! Look at these curtains that are covering
the window over here, I just love them! I'm a bit colorblind so I'm not exactly
sure about the color, I think it's purple. Spiderwebs are taking over this place. And again in this room we also
have the horses coming back, they are present throughout the house. Let's see if there are clothes in this closet,
it's locked up, oh this key doesn't seem to work. This one seems to be completely closed up. The bed in the middle where they both slept
together, oh I can definitely see them back in the day laying in this bed, wow still made
with a beautiful pillow at the end of it. Again the same fireplace as in the other rooms coming back here, the tools for the
fireplace are still in front of it. And there are vases above it and this side
as well, wow so many things to look at. And over here we have his glasses left behind
from the day he passed away from planet earth. Mont Saint-Michelle we have over
here, that's a famous place in France. Fascinating room! And with that all concluded, that brings us
actually to the last floor of the place, the attic but not the least floor of the
place because attics are always one of my favorite places of the house. Because people just store
so many memories up there. Okay first off look at this tinted glass window,
but actually, it's just the sticker on this one. The downstairs one was a real painting,
but this one is just a sticker. Maybe they replaced the glass
someday and wanted a sheep option. Okay, let's go up to that
attic, quite excited to see it. Welcome inside of the attic! Oooh... Look at this, there even
seems to be a bedroom up here, so some child might have slept on this attic. It's actually still made and this is like a
thick wooden frame bed from back in the day, wow fascinating things in this place left. They even had like a little closet up here. Again filled with blankets and bed linen. Lots of different things stored up here games
that the family would have used to play together. Wow, playing cards, some booklets down there and
even gun shells, shotgun shells are left here. And then let's wander around the bedroom, it seems
also like they have constructed this, later on, it's like construction that they would have made. A little basil up here for some back in
the day they would have washed in here. There's not much more to see on this attic
except for the stroller here in the corner. Lovely piece! So everybody in front of this incredible place I'm going to thank you all with the
bells in the background of the church. Thanks for watching this video,
this was an amazing place and I really thoroughly
enjoyed exploring this place. I hope you did so too watching it,
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