Villa Amélie

This was the place of an abandoned villa located in a park somewhere in France.

Built in 1899.

The villa was the home of a wealthy man who owned a successful spinning mill, which was founded in 1856 by his father. 

He built the manor in homage to his wife and gave the name "La Villa Amélie"

When he died in 1930, his son Paul took over the family business.

Then the Second World War passed by, decimating the family ranks, but also the factory workers..., so the mill turned slow. 

In 1944, the mill's buildings were bombed by the Germans ... then later by the American troops believing that the factory sheltered enemy soldiers, which led to the complete destruction of the spinning mill in October 1944. This led to the downfall of the family company.

The family experienced violent crises in the manor. Witnesses reported that at that time, scenes of great violence regularly made the walls of the manor shake.

The mill never recovered from the economic damage done since the war and then had to sell the factory in 1969. In 1980 the mill closed.

Left to the abandon, the expectations that Prosper had invested in his descendants, the manor decays.

The last owner left for Paris after the death of her mother in the early 2000s and left everything behind.

Since then the mansion was left in decay.

In 2014, almost the entire Villa Amélie went up in smoke. 

Villa Amélie in the 1920s