Blanche monnier

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Believe it or not, this most beautiful young lady, was confined to her room for 25 years.... all because she fell in love with the wrong man. She was only found when the Paris police broke into her home....I cannot put on here the picture the police took when they found her .... it is too distressing.

Portrait colourisation of Blanche Monnier, a tragic French socialite who was locked in a dark room by her mother and brother for 25 years. Her crime? Falling in love with the "wrong" men and wanting to marry against her family wishesBlanche Monnier (French pronunciation: 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"),was a woman from Poitiers, Vienne, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her…

Agnes on Instagram: "‘In Paris 1876, 25-year-old Blanche Monnier was a typical socialite scrambling to find a suitor before it was too late. She fell in love with an older, broke lawyer, who her aristocratic mother disliked, and set her heart on marrying him. Madame Louise forbade Blanche from seeing the man. Blanche refused, at which point her mother begged her daughter to end to the affair. Blanche once more refused. Realizing that she would never persuade Blanche away from the penniless…

Jackie Monnier

This is the real story of Blanche Monnier, the French socialite locked in her house by her family for 25 years. Here’s why it happened (with photos).

Blanche Monnier.

During the 1800s, love and marriage were very different than they are today, especially for members of the upper class. Courtship was almost like a business arrangement, and people often had to get their parent’s permission before they could be in a relationship. In modern times, we read a lot…