Blanche monnier

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…

Blanche Monnier was a beautiful French socialite living in Poitiers, France. In 1876, she simply vanished from the public eye. Many found this strange - after all, her family was kept in high regard, and she was looking for a potential suitor for marriage. She didn't disappear; she was imprisoned by her mother, Madame Louise Monnier. Neighbors heard her screaming in her room. Madame Monnier said Blanche was insane. it was accepted to keep the insane under lock and key.

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Sometimes we come across photos that seem to be normal on the surface, but in the back of the mind, we do know something is off about the subject.

Welcome back, fellow humans. Blanche Monnier was known as “la Séquestrée de Poitiers, ” a “joyous and playful” socialite woman with a “wealth of beautiful hair and big, brilliant eyes,” from a tr…

Blanche Monnier, a French girl, was kept captive for 24 years in a padlocked, shuttered room where she was forced to live amidst pests, rats, human excrement, and filth. Her discovery occurred on May 23, 1901 after the Paris Attorney General received an anonymous letter indicating a woman was being held captive in a home located on a "21 rue de la Visitation" street in a wealthy neighborhood of Poiters, France. The address noted in the letter was the abode of a well-known, wealthy family…

. a Lesley Blanche illustration for Pamela Hinkson's 1933 British Vogue story about one of my favorite subjects- dogs & in this case their national origins. 'Admittedly it is as common for women to express their clothes, as for their clothes to express them. Yet in these islands it is in our dogs that we often best express ourselves, or sometimes-they turning the tables on us- express them. They express our way of living as well as, or better than, we do ourselves.' Pamela Hinkson…

She was locked up in the attic for 25 years - police officers rescued a 50-year-old undressed woman, Blanche Monnier, who was held captive inside a dark...

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…

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…