French Woman Locked In Attic For 25 Years

Loving the wrong man was a serious business in the past as the incredible story of a french young woman who was secretly locked up in a small room for 25 years shows.

French woman locked in attic for 25 years.

In paris 1876 25 year old. According to officials monnier had not seen any sunlight for her entire captivity. She was eventually found by police then middle aged and in an emaciated and filthy condition. He even said that it was her choice not to move not that she wasn t permitted to leave.

The disturbing picture above is not a still shot from a horror movie but rather is a hospital room photo of blanche monnier a french girl who was kept captive for 25 years in a padlocked shuttered room where she was forced to live amidst pests rats human excrement and filth. Blanche monnier often known in france as la séquestrée de poitiers was a woman from poitiers vienne france who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother for 25 years. A shocking story has emerged of a french lady who was considered missing by the public but who was actually locked up in her mother s attic for 25 years. In paris 1876 25 year old blanche monnier was a typical socialite scrambling to find a suitor before it was too late.