25 year along captivity of Blanche Monnier

Blanche Monnier was a French socialite from a well-respected, conservative bourgeois family. She was renowned for her beauty and attracted many potential suitors for marriage. In 1876, at the age of 27, This article consist of the details of captivity of Blanche Monnier.

she desired to marry an older lawyer who was not to her mother’s liking; she argued that her daughter could not marry a “penniless lawyer”. Her disapproving mother, angered by her daughter’s defiance, locked her in a tiny, dark room in the attic of their home, where she kept her secluded for 25 years. Louise and Marcel continued on with their daily lives, pretending to mourn Blanche’s disappearance. None of her friends knew where she was and the lawyer whom she wished to marry died unexpectedly in 1885.

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In May 1901, the “Paris Attorney General” received an anonymous letter about the atrocious act. Monnier was rescued by police from appalling conditions, covered in old food and feces, with bugs all around the bed and floor, weighing barely 25 kilograms.
After 25 years of captivity of Blanche Monnier, she was released from the room, Monnier continued to have mental health problems. She was diagnosed with various disorders, including anorexia nervosa, schizophrenia, exhibitionism and coprophilia. This soon led to her admission to a psychiatric hospital where she died on October 13, 1913.

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