I Bring To You the Strange Story of Blanch Monnier......
Aside from taking care of our army of cats, one of the favorite pastimes of @Swelker101 and myself is making videos about strange and creepy whatnots.
This is the video we made about poor Blanche.
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Around the age of 25, Blanch Monnier fell in love with an older attorney who lived nearby, Her mother, Louise Monnier, forbade the relationship. Louise plotted with her son, Marcel, to stop the marriage.
Blanche was locked in an upper room of the house until she agreed to leave the relationship. That day never came.
On June 9th, 1901 The New York Times reported “Time passed and Blanche was no longer young. The attorney she so loved died in 1885. During all that time the girl was confined in the lonely room, fed with scraps from the mother’s table – when she received any food at all."
Her discovery occurred on May 23, of 1901 after the Paris Attorney General received an anonymous letter indicating that a woman was being held captive in a home located in a wealthy neighborhood of Poiters, France.
"Monsieur Attorney General: I have the honor to inform you of an exceptionally serious occurrence. I speak of a spinster who is locked up in Madame Monnier’s house, half starved, and living on a putrid litter for the past twenty-five years – in a word, in her own filth."
Police arrived at the home, forced the door open, and found an emaciated Blanche lying in a pool of feces and food debris on a bed in an upstairs room. The 49-year-old woman, who now weighed a mere 55 pounds, was naked, scared, and deranged.
Blanche’s mother was arrested the next day. Madame Monnier, who suffered from heart disease, was immediately placed in the hospital where she unexpectedly died 15 days later. It was said that her last words were spoken to the doctors who entered the room just moments before she died. They recalled that she cried out, “Ah, my poor Blanche!”
Although Blanche Monnier did put on some weight over time, she never regained her sanity. She died in a Blois psychiatric hospital in 1913, 12 years after she was discovered captive in her room.
The identity of Blanche’s savior remains a mystery.
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Oh wow, what a sad tale. Thank you for sharing.
Well told
Thank you and thanks so much for the Resteem! :-)
My pleasure