She wanted to marry a man her mother didn’t approve of. Her punishment was unspeakable. Twenty-five years later Blanche Monnier was found, starved and filthy, locked in a small room in her mother’s house in Poitiers, France. The year was 1901. She hadn’t seen sunlight for a quarter...
Blanche Monnier was born on March 1, 1849, in the city of Poitiers, France. Her family were minor aristocrats with distant ancestry to the French nobility. By all outward appearances, her family was a normal, respectable family. Her mother was known for her charitable works and had even rec...
Blanche Monnier believed in love. She told her mother that she would never give up her true love. And so there she stayed. For 25 years. At first, Madame Monnier thought that Blanche would relent and see that her mother only wanted the best for her daughter. But as time went on, it ...