French WWI soldier's bedroom frozen in time

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Күн бұрын

When 21 year old French soldier Hubert Rochereau was killed on a WWI battlefield in 1918, his family was so grief-stricken they shut the door of his room and declared that no one was to touch it for 500 years. And, aside from a cylinder of earth from the field where he died, nothing has been added or moved from the place he was born, raised and left expecting to return. Today, his entire family gone, their grief still echoes; their wishes remain honored.

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@stevekoppel4391 6 жыл бұрын

Keep your hands in your pockets lady!!

@dagwill6711 4 жыл бұрын

"Everything in this room has been untouched" Proceeds to touch everything in the room

@peacemaker-du4hz 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I found that rather distasteful too

@kcloe88 Жыл бұрын

She never said that. She said "everything in this room is exactly as it was...."

@captainhawk6695 8 жыл бұрын

"Untouched"

@cyriil2.0aril11 4 жыл бұрын

That room is untouched and now no longer untouched "sigh"

@chasidahL 5 жыл бұрын

Such an amazing room. A fitting tribute to a brave young man. The reporter, unfortunately, is contaminating everything she is touching as she is not wearing gloves......

@galakish8 4 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD STOP TOUCHING IT ALL

@terragthegreat175 5 жыл бұрын

If they must disturb the room, It ought to be recreated in a museum

@Blackmage4001 5 жыл бұрын

It should be the museum

@josephkeres4604 2 жыл бұрын

She pissed me off when she touched his tobacco tin and cigarette box. 😡

@funzo2018 3 жыл бұрын

WELL DONT FUCKING TOUCH IT

@Wellh0wrya Жыл бұрын

Haha

@EatTheMarxists 7 ай бұрын

You can feel the parents’ grief over the loss of their son. 22 years old is way, way too young, and that war shoved young men into the meat grinder and ate nearly an entire generation. Tens of millions of fathers and mothers were given the life-shattering news that their sons had been killed on the battlefields. The Great War, what we refer to as the First World War, was the first ‘true’ war; it was the first war in which civilians were every bit as much of a target as soldiers on the battlefield were. You didn’t have ‘total war’ before WWI and civilians were typically not a target, but that changed with the invention of larger, far more powerful artillery that could hit targets literally miles and miles way. Aviation was a new field and while airplanes were not used as much as they would be in the Second World War the possibilities that aircraft and bombers could bring to the table were starting to be realized. The tank was invented during WWI and although they were nothing but armor when compared to the tanks that came afterwards they were great for soldiers to use for cover as they scrambled through No Man’s Land. Firearms, particularly rifles, had seen great improvements over the rifles used in the American Civil War and became far more accurate and deadly. The First World War is overshadowed by the Second, but I find the first to be so much more interesting. To be fair to the lady, the man who owns the house also touches some of the stuff in videos, so it was already ‘touched’. And ‘untouched’ doesn’t mean that nothing is literally not touched, it means that it’s not disturbed and moved around. There is talk of buying the house from the current owner and turning it into a museum, and I hope that happens. It would be amazing for that room to remain as it, with perhaps some restoration work done to his uniforms because moths have had their way with it, and available for people to view hundreds of years from now should humanity still be around.

@katiejon17 23 күн бұрын

What his parents did - out of love, devotion, and devastation - perfectly exhibits the love mothers and fathers have for their children. May no other young man, or woman, ever be sent to die in the wars that old men start.

@q_q123 6 жыл бұрын

holy shit. stop touching, lady.

@calchav3940 4 жыл бұрын

Untouched? As she walks thru the room picking up things..

@Impreza-bj5jh 4 жыл бұрын

They weren't literally untouched dumbass

@basedkaiser5352 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t like the way the old man is talking about the French soldier. In another documentary he seemed very disrespectful to the soldier’s family. I am French and I can tell you that the way he spoke about the soldier’s family seemed very disdainful, the way he expressed himself made him seem like he thought that doing something like this was dumb and didn’t take into consideration that this was the soldier’s parent’s way of grieving and honoring their son. I don’t know maybe I’m reading too much into this but I feel like he could’ve showed a bit more respect to the soldier and his family.

@user-vt1cd7yh3u 3 жыл бұрын

Agree this is sici history. Btw what was the Documentary?

@KazeHorse 2 жыл бұрын

I just think he's a tell it how it is type. He would probably feel disingenuous pretending to care for a man and family he never knew - but he understands why the room is like the way it is & also he does state it would be a shame for it to change. Overall, he continues to preserve the room and therefore I can't fault him for his opinions about the soldier.

@karlsenestard4703 2 жыл бұрын

Waaaah waaaah he seems disrespectiful bc he said something i dont like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Grow up

@huhendery2922 4 жыл бұрын

Why this woman are so rude to the 'untouched' things???

@alexistrebexis3195 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, ya know what’s nice to do in an untouched room? Pick up everything and look at it. 🙄🙄 Maybe people should stop touching stuff in there. Even if it’s been touched before. The more u handle crap, the less long it’s gonna last.