In the heart of the picturesque French
countryside, far away from the bustling cities, lies an enchanting abandoned
manor with a captivating history. This forgotten gem has stood the test of time
since its construction in the early 1800s. It was once home to a tight-knit
family, the descendants of whom have all left or passed away, leaving
the estate to be reclaimed by nature. This is the story of the last member of the
family to reside here, the enigmatic Jehan, whose life took unexpected twists before he
ultimately surrendered to the calling of faith. In 2014, the manor fell silent as Jehan, the
last remaining inhabitant, took his final breath. Born into a family of three, Jehan's siblings, Valentine and Eduard, had long ago left the
quaint village in search of different lives. Jehan, however, felt a deep connection
to his ancestral home and chose to stay, honouring the legacy of his family. He spent
his early years following in his father Jean's footsteps, taming horses and tending to the
land that surrounded the majestic property. But fate had other plans for Jehan. After
the untimely passing of his beloved wife, Jehan found comfort and reassurance in embracing
Christianity. The heart of the former horse tamer was now devoted to serving the Lord, and he
embraced his new calling with dedication. Jehan became the priest of the local church, guiding
his small congregation with wisdom and compassion. Today, the abandoned manor stands as a
testament to the family's once-thriving legacy. The now-empty rooms echo with whispers of
laughter and love that once filled them, and the overgrown gardens tell
tales of the life that bloomed here. Let’s unravel the mysteries hidden in
this forgotten corner of the world. Welcome back, everybody, to the Bros of DK.
I am Leslie, and today I'm showcasing a very, very special place in the middle of nowhere
in France. This mansion that we're standing in front of today used to be of the Schuyler
family, a very large family, but at the end, only Johan used to live here alone. This place
is untouched, a true time capsule, and I'm super eager to show you the insides of this place
and tell you the history of these people. I want to thank Mo behind the camera; he's helping
me out for a second time exploring it again today. Thanks, man. No worries, man. I'm gonna show
everybody the outside of this place, and yeah, it's going to be absolutely
amazing. Keep watching till the very end. Definitely not. Okay, everybody, let
me showcase the front yard and the backyard of this wonderful place before
we're gonna venture inside of there. These people used to tame horses back in the time,
and they had this very large farm, as you can see, but also a mansion where they worked and
did everything for their business. It's very beautiful, very typically French,
with the stone completely overgrown. I want to have a look inside one of these
workshops to see what's left in there. Shawn was the forefather of this family.
He started all of this, and later on, his three children Edward, Valentine, and Johan
took over. Edward and Valentine later left, and Johan was the only one at a certain
point still living on this property. I really love the style of this place. It seems like they also had a little creek
running through here. It's now completely dried up. Excuse myself for the wind; I
see that it's blowing through the trees. And then from here, through this gate, it
could go towards their wonderful mansion. This property is absolutely massive and completely overgrown, the vines over
the years of neglect. When you're looking at this place from the outside, it looks
like it's been abandoned for decades, but it's actually only been abandoned since 2017.
The last time in 2014, Johan passed away. There was somebody taking care of it, but later on,
they also stopped taking care of this place. A wonderful lantern is hanging here in front of
the entrance. Through this doorway, we are going to enter inside of this mansion. So, we have just
ended up inside of the house through this door, behind these wonderful curtains. Immediately,
you come into a very beautiful entrance area with the stairway leading to the top floor. This
building has a very unique style. I would even say it has more of an Italian style and a French
style, but I'm not 100% certain what it is. I love the rope hanging here and then leading
to the upstairs, but that's for later. First, we're going to focus on the downstairs area and
show you the ins and outs of this wonderful place. They even have this mirror over here in the
hallway where the people, where the Schuyler family, could check themselves in the morning
and see if they were ready to go out of the door. I see a key lying here, probably to open
something inside of this place. All the glasses of Johan or somebody else who
used to live here are still lying there. We have a first doorway here
to the side. Check that out. It's a very basic washing area, as you
can see. Also, very small, in my opinion. The toilets, you can see there are these guide
rails to the side, so I suppose if you're old, you need all of this. Probably, they also
moved this downstairs. One thing I noticed here in the corner of my eye, which I find
very interesting, is a poster depicting Vienna. Vienna is the capital of Austria, and
Schuyler is a sort of German/Austrian name. So, these people might have immigrated at some point
from Austria or from Germany to France, perhaps for their business. Horse naming, as they were
very proud of their business, they depicted it all throughout that place. You can see over here a
wonderful painting of a woman naming some horses. I also really love these keys
hanging here on the wall. Wow, there are these very big, castle-like keys
that I've always seen in movies. Wonderful display cabinet here to the side, but
unfortunately, there is nothing in there anymore. And also, these wonderful chandeliers
hanging here from the wall. One thing I noticed immediately as well, being this
building from the 1800s, you can see that all the electricity has been added on later.
Everything has been fitted later on because their forefathers constructed this place in the
time period when there was no electricity yet. Here we've got another doorway. See if we can
open it up. Yeah, that's not much, just a big storage area as you can see. But then we come
into a very, very beautiful room inside of this household, and this is where the family would
relax in the evening after a hard day of work. A beautiful living area, lots of
natural light flooding inside of here, an absolutely wonderful place in
the house to relax in the evening. Over here to the side of the room, we can also
see these book racks or this library and desk, and this can tell us that these people
were also very literature and educated. Of course, they had money back in the time.
They had money to send their children to school and had thousands and thousands of books left over
here. But the one thing that immediately draws my attention as well is this wonderful depiction of
the house from the outside. You can even see the exposed stone in there. It's absolutely beautiful.
Probably somebody in the house made this artwork. The paint is slowly shipping off the walls,
showing its age, showing its decay. This place is falling apart. It has to be saved very, very
soon to be able to still make something from this place. But unfortunately, I think in such a
small town as this, that's never going to happen. Very interesting items in this cabinet over here. Can see this thermometer over here on
a marble stand, a radio down below, and even two beautiful pictures hanging
here on the inside of this cabinet. Look at the smile of this lady. Wow, these look
like very happy people. Maybe these were part of the family back in the time because these are very
old pictures. This might have been Jean's father and his mother. I don't, unfortunately, know
the name of Johan and the children's mother. Wow. The whole window is completely
covered with spider webs and ivy over the decades of abandonment. Imagine the people still sitting here, somebody
playing a nice tune on the piano over here, enjoying the music, and just peace and calm
and each other's company inside of this room. What do we have over here?
I don't know this brand. See if it still plays. Yeah, and it
seems to also still be in very good tune. A radio on top of it where the whole family
would be sitting around listening to the news, listening to the radio. A very beautiful book
also lying here to the side. Let's see what's on the inside or whatever. Even artworks on the
inside of this book. Definitely a very old piece. And one thing that also grabbed
my attention is over the years, the inside of this painting literally fell
out and fell on top of this chair. This is true signs of decay. This is how you know that
a place is abandoned and is falling apart. Things like that happen. Nobody comes inside of
here anymore. Nobody tames for this place anymore. There are some wonderful pictures hanging here
on the walls. This is what French people used to do back in the time. They would put pictures of
their grandfathers and grandmothers on the walls, their family photos, and they would cherish
them. It's wonderful to see. Look at this. This might have been Valentine, the daughter of
the household. She's playing on the piano. Here we can see the people again. We have seen
this man already. This might have been Johan. Absolutely wonderful. Even the glasses, the very
thick glasses, still lying here on top of the piano. These are very vintage pictures that we
have hanging here. Back in the time, going for a picture was a big event. You would dress up, you
would be there all day long. Making the picture would even take forever. A little nightstand took
pictures of the girls still on top of here. Wow. I want another picture that really draws
my attention. Is this one over here. I think this is definitely Johan because we have
already seen this picture coming back so many times. But here, he's taming the horses, and this
is actually in the backyard of this household. A wonderful marble fireplace here in front of us, probably hasn't been lit in forever. There are
still ashes of their last burning inside of here. Wow. The bucket for the coals for the
firewood still standing in front of it. We also got a picture of this lady
over here, looking very serious. So many pictures of horses displayed
throughout this house. This was their people, their livelihood, their livelihood.
This is where they lived off. Beautiful. Even all the walking canes of Johan are
still left here. And then we got this sort of side table over here that they used to
display all their cognac and some wines on. Whenever guests came over in the evening, they
would pour themselves a glass. As you can see, the last glasses but still with a little bit of
liquid inside of them is still standing here. And that's super interesting because that
means this is the last thing they poured, this is the last thing they did in life. You
can literally see the life left in front of you. There's a bottle of Cassis from 1969.
This bottle is more than 50 years old, still standing in this place, and spider
webs have completely taken it over. Love all the pictures that they hung up on the
wall here. Wow, isn't that just beautiful to see? And here again, you can see all
the paint chipping off the wall and a wonderful crooked picture of
this young lady hanging here as well. It's a very typical French chair, beautiful
yellow chair. I really like it. You see them all over this country, but I cannot get enough of
them. Let's quickly have a look at the table here in the middle, probably where they all used
to sit and have drinks, maybe read something. The contemporary history from 1789 until 1872. And
that was also the time period when this house was built, so probably one of the first books that I
would acquire while living inside of this place. Let me give you a look at the wonderful room that we just ventured through.
Absolutely adored. [Music] Let's go further throughout this
house, and yet again above here, you can see a depiction of a
horse hanging above the door. Wow. Now we can go further throughout this
hallway. This house has history written all over it. For example, all these depictions of
old towns hanging here on the wall, absolutely beautiful. And also, the old school life of France
displayed is like a true untouched museum that I have for my own right now and for you all to enjoy
with me. It's an absolutely unique experience. Have a look over here, for example. I'm
standing next to the door over here, but I'm taller than this doorway. Back
in the time, people were way smaller. They were not as nutritious and healthy as we
are right now. We have grown over the years, and we don't even fit underneath these doorways
anymore. Then you can see the evolution of people and how it used to be back in those time
periods. And that's why I love exploring. Have a look at the wonderful room
that we are entering into right now. Absolutely eye-watering beauty. Okay, I'm gonna
show it from you to you, from this corner. I think this is Johan's, as well
as the last room, probably where he slept. You can see a single bed standing
down here. Of course, at the end of his life, he couldn't go as well as he did earlier,
and he had to move his bed downstairs. We have a bed over here that's still made, with
the pillow still at the end of it, and a mirror still above it. Two beautiful pictures
of these ladies hanging underneath here. And I'm right beside it. We got this wonderful
painting of these dogs hanging here on the wall, these shelves with all the pictures again on top
of them. One of this lady, this young lady over here. Don't know what she has to do with, I don't
know also if she wanted the children or anything. I love the outfit that this man is in.
All the books that are still left up here, absolutely beautiful. This looks like an army
uniform, probably someone in the household was also in the army, and they proudly displayed
this picture over here. Absolutely vintage. And then we have this sort of, it's not a divining
screen, I'm actually not sure what this piece of furniture, what the purpose of this piece of
furniture, of this piece of antique used to be. Beautiful upholstery. I love the woodwork
on there, an absolutely wonderful piece. And right next to it, we have a typewriter on top
of this desk, a Remington portable typewriter, probably a very old piece that I don't want
to ruin. I'm not gonna try to activate it. Another picture of this young lady behind
here and these old books lying on top of it. It's just wonderful. It's
literally a house full of memories. We also got a very, very small doorway underneath
here, in the corner of the room. Then I'm very curious to see what's behind it. Okay, it's
a little cavity underneath the stairway, where he stored some books. As you can see,
these look like children's books back there. So maybe back in the time, this used to
be a children's bedroom, but later on, they converted it to his own bedroom. Even
a chandelier hanging from the ceiling. All these books over here as well. Let's see
if there's still something in the closet. Yes, it's still completely filled with all
the belongings - all the clothes from the person that slept in here. And as you can see, the
clothes that are in here seem like female clothes. Okay, so that might have not been from him. Oh, I love the painting that we have above here,
covered in spiderwebs, depicting a young man probably going to war or in the army or something
like that. Beautiful. And from here... Oh, before I go further, there are even more pictures
of children and babies hanging on a wall. I hear the comment a lot in the comment
section that pictures shouldn't be left behind in these places, and still to this day, I
don't understand why people leave pictures behind. Because he must still have family - Valentine
or Edward must still be alive, who knows? We come into a very messy room afterwards here.
I don't know the exact purpose of this room, but it seems like it also used to
be a living room back in the time for a dining space, maybe even a formal
dining space. I think that was the purpose of this room. There are so many bills, letters,
and even magazines lying on the floor here. It seems like it used to be a space for you to sit
down in the evening, smoke a couple of cigarettes. As you can see, a very messy person, I would say,
if you left it behind like this. All the other rooms, though, look very pristine, so I'm not
100% sure if this was his doing. As you can see. A little sitting area over here, and then another
collage of even more pictures from the family. This might have been Jean and his wife and
the children. No, wait, these are three women. I'm not sure where we can see the three
children together. They're definitely not in these pictures. This might have been
grandchildren or something. Okay, and then a very, very grand fireplace in front of us here,
probably the biggest one inside this place. And also a wooden ceiling inside of this room. Okay, let's see what the room behind here has
to behold. And yeah, this is the kitchen area, as you can see. Wow, very, very big
kitchen, where the woman of the household used to work and used to fill the bellies of
the men that were working with the horses. I also saw a calendar hanging here on the wall.
This one has the year 2010 written on top of it. It's 13 years ago, but I don't know if that's the
exact year. I've also seen 2014 before and 2017, so I don't know the exact date of abandonment,
but it's led to believe that it's been abandoned for around 10 years right now.
You've got all the keys hanging here from this wooden board that lead to all the barns
and all the spaces inside this grand mansion. I kind of adore this kitchen. It's not like
the most beautiful kitchen we've seen before, but you can see that it's lived in and has
been cooked in, and that's what I really love about it. There's a very grand dining table,
actually two dining tables. Six chairs around here and two chairs around here, so the maximum
eight people could dine inside of this space. There's a very big closet also standing here.
Grant, is there still something in here? Oh my, all the glasses that they used to serve the guests
with are still left in here. Absolutely crazy. Let's close that up. And even the last
dishes of these people are still left here. Johan used a couple of glasses, as you can see,
and he probably never got to clean them anymore. There's a big rack with all the pots
and pans and all the kitchen utensils still there. A very typical French thing, a
built-in cabinet into the wall with even all the spices and all the food still left in here.
There's still some pasta as well here, crazy. Wow, this used to also be a fireplace back
in the time where they would cook on, but now they just put a stove in front of
it with a chimney attached to it. These scissors are still hanging here. Oh, this
is a lovely thing. You can see scissors hanging here with also a thermometer and a little timer
as well. This is what you call an hourglass. Yeah, I think this is called an hourglass in English, a
small timer to measure time when you were cooking. All the pans hanging here from their
hooks, absolutely beautiful to see. Wow, and this, my friends, is a very unique piece
of antique hanging here. This is a copper pan that the maid or the servants of the house, or
the people themselves, would put hot coals in, and they would put it at the end of the bed
so that your feet stay warm in the evening. I think this might have been, no, I am not
sure. It looks like a very big pizza cutter, but I'm not sure. I also noticed
this curtain over here, and, yeah, like I thought, like I thought,
there's even a doorway behind here that leads us to see even further. Oh yeah,
the barns are on this side of the household, and I think from here, you can also enter into
the barns that are beside the house that I showed at the first of the video. I even noticed the
stairway to the side of me leading to another section of the house. Let's do that in a moment.
I'm very curious to see what might be up there. Oh, very large storage area here. You can see the
freezer, but I would put all that meats inside of. Of course, people live very far from stores
here, so they needed to store a lot of food, and even in winter times and stuff like that, you
can see all this preserved food, all this canned food still over here in this cabinets. Wow. Okay,
let's see a little bit further here. (applause) Oh, here we come into another
barn that we have not seen before. This is where the boiler is, the heating, and
just in general, a storage area for the household. Not very interesting items there inside of here.
I can see a very small mattress lying here on the floor that piques my interest. I don't know why.
I absolutely don't know why, but it piques my interest. Okay, now this is not really something
that I want to show in-depth. Let's go further. I want to go upstairs there, and now I'm very
interested to see those upper floors here because later on in the video, we're also going to go
upstairs to see the bedrooms on the other side. Small mirror hanging on the wall.
This is a very, very old section of the household. Looks like another storage area up here. Very
big map of Australia hanging here on the wall. Oh my God, no way. Oh, this is beautiful. This
is such an authentic French bedroom that we just entered into. Wow, what a place. And look how
shallow the ceiling is over here. Like again, I'm gonna show my height in here. Here, I'm not
touching the ceiling, but I'm almost touching the ceiling inside of this room. That tells us that
this might have been a section of the house that has been constructed first, and the remainder
of the house might have been constructed later. Wow, so many interesting things up here that I
want to showcase. Of course, I think this is a pet pen, but I'm not 100% sure about this piece
of furniture. It's a beautiful piece of furniture, though. But this over here used to be a
very traditional bathtub, and people would sit inside of there crouched up all the way,
and that's how they used to wash themselves, pause, and the meter. A very typical French
baldaquin. Wow, you can see all the piping that has been added on later, all the cabling
that has been added on later. From that, you can tell that this place is incredibly old. Love the
lamp that we have standing on top of here. Wow, probably something that they used when they needed
to go out at night to check on the barns. A little desk to the side here, but all the books still
in there. I can see a wonderful clock above here, a beautiful clock face made from marble. Even the
letters that they wrote are still left here. Oh, little moth flying around in front of my camera.
Wow, this one is from 1895, if I'm not mistaken. Oh my God, I love the small little picture of
the girl next to here. That's so beautiful. They had a book open here that they're
still reading, never finished it. Even some newspapers left over here. See if we
can see a date on them. Wow, they even had these cartoons and everything in here. Oh, that's
so beautiful. I cannot see a date on them. That's no problem. The letter back underneath
the chair here, next to the chair here. And then, of course, the still-made bats, these still-made
sleigh bats that we have inside of this room. I have to be careful because the floor is
like bending a little bit, so I don't want to fall through it. Of course, I think it's still
stable, though. The walking cane is still hanging on the side of the bed. I can also see a record
player, or a phonograph, over here, but it also looks like it might have had a gramophone back
in the time, but that's not on there anymore. Lift it up, put it on top of the
record, and play away into the night. Okay, can you still imagine what it must have
been in here, been like in here when the record player was playing away, the tunes were going, and
the people still lived inside of these bedrooms? Beautiful carvings side of the bed here, and even the shoes of the people
still standing in front of the bed. Absolutely incredible. Here, they could hang up their clothes
in the evening, after nice and straight to go out in the morning again.
Even more newspapers lying here. They have no dates on that anywhere, but they
look like very old newspapers to me. I'm not sure, not 100% sure. They even had a very small sitting
area over here, and they could sit together in the evening, write something. I can see somebody
was writing letters here back in the time. Sunday, Saturday, the 13th, the 6th of 1964. This
person was practicing writing the J in cursive, as you can see. Probably a child
of the family. At one point, they were writing on the back of this. This
is all handwriting from that time period, more than half a century ago. Of course,
also a fireplace inside of this room, but the wood still next and standing next
to it. The bellows still on top of it. Here, they would heat up the room within
the evening, and provide some warmth. Again, I'm going to show you this room again.
Really adore this one. I'm so surprised that we found it on top of here. So that means that
the family was even bigger than we expected. Your style is also multiple bathrooms upstairs, and up here, there are a couple more rooms.
Up here, they could hang up all the clothes. Oh no, I think we are coming
into another bathroom. Yes, wow, and this one is incredibly beautiful.
Very, very authentic. Really love it. I love the exposed beam that's running across the
ceiling here, right above the bed. It looks like this room has been retrofitted later on to be a
bedroom. At first, it might have been a barn or something, but when the family grew too large,
they might have retrofitted it into a bedroom. Again, a similar stove over in this room. You
can see a Myrus DSG DG Paris beautiful cast iron stove. Little red windows in front of it
have eaten up all the smoke over the years. And behind it, you can see
another collection of pictures. You can see this young man here in the corner.
He is standing in front of the mansion, and here is sitting on the steps of
the mansion. Wow, that's beautiful. Looks like a Viking drinking horn or
a horn to blow on for the hunting. The person in this room definitely loved
collecting. Look at this pristine collection of all these key chains that he collected over
the years, he or she collected over the years. There are some very interesting ones over
here, chocolate, a Ford Model T down there. Very interesting. You can also see Elvis
and totala and stuff like that up here. Oh, another record player here in a corner,
and even a record still on top of it. This looks like a passport, Johan. Wow, that's the passport of the last
person living here. It's not really a passport, it's more like something for a sports club.
But this is like an identification of him. Crazy. And here we see a self-made toy that's
probably been made by one of the children back in the time. Wow, through history, we are
uncovering here right now. True history. Little sitting area, a little desk where they
could study at, where the person that lived inside of this room could study at. There's still
a book open over here, and of course, these people love to smoke back in the time, so there's
also an ashtray but still ashes on top of it. I also see these very small pictures over here.
This might have been your hand with the dogs in. Oh, yes, this is the kitchen that he's
sitting in. Look at that. The kitchen that we're just visiting. Is it? This is your hand when you
were still younger. He's sitting in that kitchen. There's one little item that I've noticed up here, and that's a candle. It could be lit up. Wow.
And of course, not to forget in this room, the bed, the prominent bed that's standing here
in this room very proudly. I love how the candle bended like that over time and gave a real sense
of time looking at it. Small clock face over here. Jesus Christ sharing the bread.
Definitely very religious people as well. Of course, in those time periods,
people were all very religious. Look at this, see the camera and everything,
it's lying here that I used. Not a little desk that we have. Of course, another picture
of a man riding a horse behind there. These people were devoted to their
occupation, can see it throughout it. Looks like a secretary desk that we have
over here. The key is not from this lock, so I don't think I'm gonna be able to open it up. So many things inside of this room, you can see.
Really, that's what I love about these rooms. You can really tell how a person was in life and what
they loved to do in life. And that really makes a very personal story about these people that lived
in this place. And that's why I enjoy it so much, going through here and looking at every single
detail so that we can really picture the people that lived inside of this place. Johan, the
last person, but also Valentine, Edward, and Joe and his wife, possibly the many
more people that all occupied this place. A lot of books still up here, another depiction of horse riding. Of course,
whenever you have a certificate, certificate signed in 1965 for the father of the family,
but I'm not 100% sure it's an education and the primary education. I think it says over here,
there's another diploma for Johan, Johan the son of the of Sean, and is also from 1964. Same date.
Oh, this is for becoming a call Libra de Garson, and that means like it's more of a culinary
school if I'm not mistaken. Here at the end, we have even more storage spaces above the barn
where they stored all the chairs and all the furniture that didn't fit anymore inside of the
house. Okay, there's so much stuff in here, but I can see that the room behind there is kind of
empty. So I'm gonna go back downstairs, and then we're going to adventure up to the second floor.
[Music] Yes, everybody, it's time, it's time to
venture upstairs and to see what's hidden in those most private parts of the house. But
one thing I really enjoy while I'm going up here is to see these steps that have been
carved out over time by the thousands and thousands of people that have walked at
the stairway over the two centuries that this building has existed. Literally,
the family has carved out these steps. Here in the middle of the hallway, they have
a little library with all these dictionaries and all these encyclopedias left behind. Very
old books, probably as old as the house itself. I really enjoy them. Or this is all about plants
and stuff like that. Also, really love the lamps that are hanging here from the side. Wonderful
gold plating on them. Then we can go further, and on the wall here, we have this wonderful
tapestry hanging here depicting old French life. That is beautiful. A very, very lovely stairway, everybody. And
I can see from the steps here that there's another stairway leading up later
to another floor in this household. I didn't expect this place to be so huge.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a castle, but it's definitely a very, very grand
mansion, or manor as you would say in French. That's also how these people would have
called it. Not a picture on a wall here. Even more books down here, everybody. And
then we can see another collection over here, and this is all of these miniature little things.
Little, I don't know what they call them. You can even see the chimney here, probably
from a puppet house. All still in here. That's beautiful. Let's see if we can open it
up. It seems like it's locked, and it's also probably good that it's locked up. This was their
proudest collection, hanging here in the hallway. All these vintage pictures here on the side as
well, and even more pictures all throughout. Of course, another horse riding
picture above the doorway here. And then we come into another room of the
house that I really adore. This used to be the primary bathroom we saw at first in the video. The
bathroom downstairs that has been added on later, the more modern bathroom where Johan used to
wash himself when he got older. But this was the bathroom where all the people still lived in here,
where they washed themselves, maybe their toilets, everything what you would need. A bathtub again
with paws underneath it. Absolutely wonderful. Boiler in the back there, and I think this water
was also very cute. Very cute-looking bathroom. Same area over here in the sponges and everything
is still left. The water jug still left behind. And I've visited this place. This is in
Copenhagen, Denmark. This is The Little Mermaid. These people also love to travel. From
all the things that we saw throughout the house, probably they went themselves to Copenhagen and
made this picture. I've stood in front of this exact statue, and the people that lived here might
have stood there as well at one point in time. We share a connection. Oh, this
marble table, oh, that's wonderful. See if there's still something
in here. Wow, no, it's nothing. Just have an overlook this wonderful bathroom.
And then from the bathroom, we can go further, and this leads us into the first bedroom of the
upstairs. Wow, what a grand room, everybody. This was definitely the master bedroom where
Johan Ruter and his wife presumably used to sleep. Wonderful. You can see the handwritten letter here
on the wall, "Johan Ruter's in 1955," and it is directed to Agnette, might have been his wife.
And down here, we can even see a wedding picture, presumably of Johan and his wife, then who knows
all the bridesmaids in front of it. So cute, and a picture of a baby. There's a lot of
stuff cluttered throughout his bedroom, as you can see. All the clothes of them
are all on top of there for some reason. A little library again on the wall. And there's
one very important part of the story that I haven't told you yet. You can see this priest's
cope still hanging here, and people have told me that after Johan's wife passed away a couple of
decades before him, he found some sort of faith, and he stopped the taming the horses and
stopped the horse riding business here. And he actually became a priest for the
local church and devoted the rest of his life to Christianity, which is actually pretty
beautiful to do. Wow, all the frames still hanging here on the wall, old
French life completely devoured by decay. And then the bed itself, till here, a very
interesting type of bed frame, a copper type of bed frame. You don't see them that often. And then
this grand, grand fireplace here in the middle of the room that would light up this wonderful
bedroom. Can you imagine lying in bed here, fireplace on over here, the
flame roaring into the night? I love the lamps, the oil lamps,
they're standing on either side here. So, so, so many interesting things
throughout this house that we can look at. It matches displayed in the letterbox, I love
it. Even more pictures here, similar lamp. This looks like another doorway behind here. It really
draws my attention. Probably is a building closet. Oh, this might have been made by the children
back in the time. It's a little mosaic of a cross. As you can see, it's actually pretty beautiful.
Probably took them a lot of time to make. And of course, also in the corner of
the room, a praying chair not to forget. Beautiful gold-plated mirror above her as well. I love these bluish chairs that
we are standing over here as well, they're beautiful. And in the corner of the room,
we can even see this defining screen hidden away or this privacy screen or whatever you
want to call it. And this is a very beautiful one because it's very intricately
designed, as you can see, very elegant. Now we can go further back through the hallway
to the other side of these upper floors, more of these lamps hanging here on the wall. Here's the stairway, it's going to lead
us up further. I think it's an epic space. Even some antler hats hanging here,
guarding this section of the upper floors. Oh, a yellow room! Oh my, this is
a very interesting room, everybody. Wow, a bed in here, but also
a baby crib on this side, still made, as you can see, the sheets are still
on top of it, the cross still hanging above the bed. What I adore the most: lantern hanging
from the ceiling here, from these wooden beams. I almost dropped my camera, excuse me,
everybody. Oh, I almost hit my face. Okay, I got it fixed. Yes, sometimes mistakes happen.
You can see the chandelier hanging here, but what I also want to talk about is
these exposed beams that we have up here, and that's sort of a more German-ish design
or a more Austrian design of building a house. And then the baby crib here, I wonder at what
point in time a baby used to live inside of this place. It most likely must have been a long,
long time ago. It has the same bed sheets as the other bed. It's cool that the lady's hat is
still hanging here, and even more depictions of old French time on the wall. One very sad part
but actually a reality of this place is that the walls are completely cracking up, and this
house is slowly starting to become unusable. And that's a very sad reality. From here, we're
going to go further throughout this hallway. You can see there's even more at the back here,
another display stand with all the books on the shelf here and all these little
knick-knacks, seeing, hearing, listening, beautiful Buddhas as well over here, and
we got this ship up here. That's cool. I also was interested in this painting that
we have up here. It says it's from 1400 37. No, this one's sorry. It's made
in 1859, but it depicts sort of a captain or an army leader from
1437. I think it says Jean de Castik. Another collection of pictures, these vintage
pictures we have over here. I always love to look at them. I love to look at the details.
Here we see a young lady with one of those toys, one of those circles that you would
roll around the garden back in the time. A man all dressed up over here, a woman going
on the picture with her child. This was again a very important day for these people. Taking
your picture nowadays, we have our phones, but back then, people only had a couple of
pictures being made from them throughout their lives. And this was one of the most
important events for them. Unfortunately, these pictures are now all abandoned and hanging
here, and that's again a very sad reality. Oh, this is ancient history of this household. Horse jumping, an integral part of
this family, the Schuyler family. They even had a Manor puppet house
up here, a Manor dollhouse. So yeah, sometimes we get some names and again a depiction
of an old French town over here as well. Television over here, and I think we're ending
up in not our bedroom of this household. Oh, wow, look at that. We got another bedroom
tailor-made for the children of this place. How many beds did we already see? I think we
saw like, with this included, around nine beds in total inside of this household. So that a lot,
like a family of eight or nine people used to live inside of this place at one point. The Schuyler
family was pretty big but diminished over time. I love the design of these beds. It looks similar
to the bed frame that we saw in the other room, but I've never seen this type of bed
before. There was probably a curtain hanging up there at some point, covering
the bed very beautifully and very elegantly still made for two children that slept inside
of this room. Let's have a look throughout it again. Even more depictions of horses throughout
this house. What would you expect, of course. Beautiful accounting desk underneath here, probably used as a vanity for a girl
that used to sleep in this room. I love that the bed is still made with
this blue cover. I would, of course, have wanted to see those curtains hanging from
the sides, but that's not the case right now. A bedside table in between here, the lamp on top
of there, and of course, also an ashtray still there. They also have these speaking devices
over here, probably to ask something or maybe to ask for a servant because these people
are very rich. They definitely had servants. "If you can keep your head when all about
you are losing theirs and blaming it on you." It's an English text. I would not
have expected that in this part of France. Beautiful depiction of a lady, of course,
Jesus Christ also hanging in this room. And here again, you can see the decay taking
place. The ceiling, the plaster from the ceiling falling off, falling onto the bed. Right
next to it, we have this wonderful oil lantern. Thousands and thousands of books we
have already seen inside the house. It looks like it never ends. Some more books lying on top
of here, peacock feathers again, a vintage picture. Look how long these
weights for this cuckoo clock are. Okay, this probably doesn't function anymore. I think it's
broken. It's beautiful laying there in a corner. Upholstered chair standing here as well, and then
here we have the fireplace, another fireplace inside of this house. And you can also see from
this fireplace how it changed over time. So first, you had the fireplace you would make a fire inside
of there. Then they had this sort of radiator in front of it, and later on, they added these
heaters to the rooms. So that's our those are the generations and the evolution of this house
over the time that people lived in here. I really love to see that. I love this makeshift radiator
that they had in front of the fireplace here. Chin of Maria. Of course, more vintage pictures,
everybody. What did you expect? Everywhere memories everywhere.
Oh, this lady is wonderful. Oh, I'm almost falling, and not a collection
over here. I love this man. We're standing here next to his painting, proudly presenting
it, and this looked like all the same person, wow, and different outfits and over different
periods of time, probably a family member. See, we have one more room over here.
Oh, this room also had its own bathroom, so the children that slept inside of
this room also had their own bathroom. It's completely stacked in here with again a
lot of furniture, their own bathtub and sink, and everything in here. Wow, again another
overlook of this magnificent room, everybody, before we go to the last
floor of this place. [Music] This stairway is not as grand as the
other ones, but let's still go up there, let's still see what we have. Oh, this looks like
a fierce battle. People are lying on the floor. And a grand map of France, of course, not to
forget. Yeah, this is definitely a door to an epic space inside of this house. You can
even see a pillow lying here on the floor. Okay, I always love to go to these attics to
see where people store their oldest memories and things that they don't want in the house
anymore, but it's still a failure to them, and I really appreciate that. Here you can see the
structure of the house as well, the exposed beams, literally no insulation underneath the
roof tiles. I love how they constructed it back in the time. See with these pins
that they're hammered through there. This side has nothing for us, but let's have a
look on this side if there's anything of interest up here. It's actually a very small attic.
Normally these grand places have enormous attics, but this one seems to be very empty except
for these couple of crates that we have here, these chests that I really want to check out.
Oh, what do we have in here? Music notes, and everything in here looks
like a very beautiful and interesting chest. Completely filled with things, it looks
like a magazine album from 1800. Wow! With all these music notes in there,
it's a musical album, everybody. Wonderful! It also has this very authentic smell
in here. Let's close it back up, and there we are. I think there's not much
more to show up here. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Wow! What an authentic experience we
have today. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes I find abandoned places that
truly feel like taking a step back into time, and that was this place exactly.
It felt today like walking through a museum of the Schiller family. I want
to thank them so much for their lives, and it's sad to see that everything is
left behind like this. But at least, we could document their history and showcase
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