The lost girl, 1874 Blanche Monnier was a Parisian socialite who was known for her beauty–HISTORY
The lost girl, 1874 Blanche Monnier was a Parisian socialite who was known for her beauty. In France, she is referred to as "La Séquestrée de Poitiers" which means "The Confined Woman of Poitiers". The reason as to why she got this title is tragic, and it all began with a love story that never had a happy ending. Monnier was from a wealthy and respected family from Poitiers. When she was 25, she fell in deeply in love with a "penniless lawyer". This upset her mother, Louise Monnier, who wanted Blanche to marry a man of wealth and notoriety. However, Blanche refused to give up on her lover, so her mother trapped her in a room upstairs in their mansion and padlocked her to a bed. Blanche would remain on this bed for the next 26 years. During her time in this room, Louise and Blache's brother, Marcel, would pretend that she had ran off and disappeared. The family had a good reputation, as they donated to charities, and were considered to be intellige...