Blanche Monnier
French woman kept locked for 25 years (1849–1913)
- Fame59.9
- Momentum3.3
- France rank#245
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Updated 2026-06-09
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.
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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.
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