# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blanche-monnier
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:18:54.469Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/blanche-monnier"
name: "Blanche Monnier"
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description: "She disappeared from society at 25 and reappeared at 50 — skeletal, filthy, locked in darkness by her own mother. The police found Blanche Monnier in a shuttered attic room in 1901 after a quarter-century of captivity her family never explained."
tagline: "French woman kept locked for 25 years (1849–1913)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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birthDate: "1849-03-01"
deathDate: "1913-10-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Blanche Monnier was born in Poitiers on 1 March 1849 into an aristocratic French family. At 25, she vanished from view. Her mother and brother kept her locked in a small room, hidden from the world, for 25 years. When police finally broke in, they found a middle-aged woman in an emaciated and filthy state who had not seen sunlight once during her entire confinement. The case made her known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers — the Confined Woman of Poitiers. She died on 13 October 1913.