A dark room, a woman locked in a bed, 100 springs, summers, autumns and winters, women have changed from beautiful girls to ugly monsters. And it was her mother and brother who turned her into this, what happened to this most shocking captivity incident in France?
On May 23, 1901, the Procurator General of the French Court of Cassation received a strange letter, which was only one page long and very rudimentary from the outside. It reads:
With respect and honesty, Mr. Attorney General, I would like to tell you about a particularly serious incident. In the house of Monier's house in Poitiers is imprisoned a man who is about to starve to death. For the past 25 years, she has been locked in a room and subjected to an inhuman abuse, spending her days with her excrement and cockroaches, hoping you will save her!
The Monier familyThis is a noble family that is quite well-known in French high society, and the head of the family, Madame Monier, is a member of the Poitiers family, and is a well-known philanthropist who has gained the respect of countless people for her contributions to the poor people. The eldest son, Marseille, is an excellent lawyer and has also served as deputy mayor.
How could such a famously spotless family be subjected to such horrific accusations, the Attorney General was very skeptical of the authenticity of the letters. However, out of responsibility for his work, he decided to put the letter in the hands of the police department of Poitiers.
Early the next morning, several police officers arrived at the scene very quickly. After revealing their intentions to the Monniers, they were immediately met with fierce opposition from the other party, who considered it to be a malicious slander. In desperation, ** only forcibly entered the house to search, and after a few hours, nothing was found at the scene.
And just as they were about to leave with an apology, a police officer suddenly found a locked attic in the most private part of the room, which was silent but had a strange smell. Thinking of the terrible descriptions in the report letter, ** smashed the door lock immediately despite the opposition of the mother and son.
Pushing open the door, an indescribable stench came over my face, heavy curtains blocked all sunlight, and there was not a single light in the room. The officers fumbled to open the curtains, and the terrifying picture instantly appeared in front of them. In the corner of the room a monster-like woman is chained to a broken bed, naked, surrounded by her own excrement, and the floor is crawling with maggots of all kinds.
Everything in the letter was true, and because the stench in the house made it impossible to continue the investigation, the officers at the scene were forced to leave the room and immediately notify the local hospital. Mrs. Monier and his son Marcel on the side had completely lost the excitement of the prosecution, and they sat very quietly on the sofa, as if they had expected this day for a long time.
The victim was severely malnourished, weighed less than 25 kilograms, and was completely insane and could only speak simple words. Her body and mind were completely destroyed, and she even developed symptoms of cognitive reversal under long-term abuse, and developed a special penchant for her excrement.
Due to the seriousness of the incident, the local police immediately launched an interrogation of the suspect. In the intermittent confessions, a truth that is even more tragic and terrifying than people imagine is slowly emerging. The captive man is named Blanche Moniel, the youngest daughter of the Monel family, who disappeared 25 years ago.
From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the countries of Europe ushered in an era of **, with the rapid accumulation of wealth in the upper class and the further intensification of class weathering. In the celebrity circle of Poitiers, France, it is full of glitz and extravagance, and the most famous young talent is the youngest daughter of the Monel family, Blanche.
This is a young girl who is loved by thousands of people, she is beautiful in appearance, and she does not have the arrogance of being born into an aristocratic family, all of which makes countless young people fascinated by her. As she grew older, Blanche had more and more admirers. But the Monnier family has a strict upbringing, and the strong mother controls everything in the family, and she strictly controls the children's lives and does not tolerate the slightest disobedience.
In Mrs. Monier's mind, her own pearl is an important bargaining chip, and Blanche must marry a nobleman who is a good match, and must not affect the family's reputation, and she never allows her daughter to have casual contact with the opposite sex. But what Mrs. Monill didn't expect was that Blanche inherited her stubbornness, although she did not inherit her mother's strength.
In 1874, a lawyer named Benjamin accidentally walked into Blanche's life, rich experience and calm personality deeply attracted her, the two fell in love at first sight, and this beautiful beginning was destined to become the beginning of all subsequent tragedies.
The happy times lasted only two short years, and the underground affair was soon discovered by Madame Monil. After learning that the other party was just the son of a bankrupt businessman, she suddenly broke up and ordered her daughter to break up with him immediately. But Blanche, who has already tasted love and freedom, will never back down this time and firmly refuses her mother's request.
A few weeks later, Blanche and her mother became more and more stiff, and the information about her date with civilians became known to the surrounding neighbors, and all kinds of obscene rumors circulated in the streets, and some even rumored that she was unmarried and pregnant. Mrs. Monier's most unbearable bottom line has finally been touched, and she would rather her daughter destroy it than ruin the family's reputation.
One summer evening in 1876, Madame Monel and her son Marcel forcibly carried Blanche into the attic of the house as she returned home, and together they chained her to a broken bed and closed the door to the room as their daughter screamed in terror.
She told Blanche that she would never want to leave the room unless she agreed to break up with her lawyer. At the beginning, Mrs. would question her daughter every once in a while, expecting that she would give up soon, but Blanche would never agree to break up with the lawyer, although she asked her mother to let her out.
This provoked a fury, and Mrs. Monnier installed thick curtains in the room so that her daughter could not distinguish between day and night. Never doing any cleaning of the house again, despair and fear made Blanche cry all day, but she still didn't give in.
Seeing that her daughter showed no signs of compromise, Mrs. Monier was completely determined to use her outstanding acting skills to announce that Blanche had disappeared after leaving home one day. The tearful performance made everyone around her believe her lie, and finally slowly forgot about this angelic girl.
During the time when his lover disappeared, Benjamin went to Blanche's date again and again, looking for all the scenes where she could appear, but the beloved girl never appeared again. In 1885, nine years after Blanche's disappearance, Benjamin died without marrying.
And at this time, Blanche finally lost his mind completely in the long-term silence and became a monster that looked like a human and inhuman, and all the glitz and splendor outside no longer had anything to do with Blanche. By the time he was rescued from the room in 1901, Blanche was 50 years old.
Under the crazy reports of **, countless people poured into the local law enforcement agencies, demanding severe punishment for these two vicious criminals. During the trial, Mrs. Monier and Marcel kept making excuses to defend themselves, and they kept insisting that she had gone crazy when they put Blanche under house arrest.
On June 8, 1901, a few days before the formal trial began, Mrs. Monier died of a heart attack at the police station because she could not bear the pressure of captivity, and was held for only 15 days.
And in the subsequent interrogation of Marcel, he used his advantage as a lawyer to put all the blame on his dead mother. Emphasizing that he had been forced to act on orders for 25 years, he was finally acquitted after many trials and retrospective attempts because the law at the time did not contain any clause on compulsory rescue. The letter writer who saved Blanche was never found, and thought that the most likely one was a former servant in the family.
Although this letter eventually helped Blanche escape from Hell, those countless long nights of horror will never be endured by anyone with him. She should have snuggled up to her beloved Benjamin and spent the last days of her life.