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In the traditional old society, especially for some upper classes, marriage is sometimes more like a commercial arrangement that pursues the door-to-door pair.
The kind of qiong yao plot that the heroine falls in love with the poor boy, but is prevented by her parents and even put under house arrest at home, is sometimes staged in reality.
More than a hundred years ago, there was a shocking case similar to the plot in Paris, France, which caused a sensation in the entire society at that time...
On May 23, 1905, the Office of the Attorney General in Paris, France, received a mysterious anonymous whistleblower letter.
Inside the letter was a handwritten and unsigned note pointing out that an aristocratic family in the city was hiding an extremely dirty secret:
"Mr. Attorney General, I must inform you of something very serious —
Madame Monnier's house is locked up with a woman!
She had been starving for the past 25 years, and the room was littered with rotting garbage heaps and the filth she had discharged herself! ”
Although there are only these few words in the letter, they are enough to frighten the Attorney General into sleepless nights.
Because the reported Mrs. Monier has been known for her philanthropy in Parisian high society for many years and has even won many community awards for it, her deceased husband Charles Monnier, who was the dean of the Poitiers Academy of Letters, was awarded the "Council of Good Deeds" awarded only to citizens who showed the highest virtue!
Their son Marcel has been doing well in school and became a good lawyer after graduation.
Such an ancient aristocratic family with a high reputation and great prestige in the local area, if it is exposed that a woman is imprisoned at home without permission, it is undoubtedly a big scandal!
In fact, the Monnier family originally had a beautiful little daughter, Blanche, who was once called "the most beautiful woman in France" at that time.
However, it is such a popular socialite, but 25 years ago bizarrely "evaporated",
This is exactly the same time as stated in the anonymous letter, which means that the informant said that the imprisoned woman was Noneache!
And that's why the Attorney-General has been uneasy since he received the whistleblower letter.
The Attorney General did not dare to ignore the whistleblower letter, and with a hint of skepticism sent the officers to Monier's house to investigate.
At that time, the police first conducted a routine search of the entire manor, but did not find anything unusual.
However, just as they were about to leave, they were attracted by the smell of decay emanating from a room upstairs.
Looking inside again, I saw a door that was locked and closed!
At this time, the police realized that something was wrong, so they immediately took tools and forcibly smashed the door lock.
As the door opened, an extremely disgusting and unpleasant putrid smell came to the nose, forcing the police officers to retreat step by step.
After the smell had subsided a little, they finally plucked up enough courage to rush into the dark room, and then found the only window hidden behind the thick curtains through the lighting of the flashlight, and when they pulled it open, they could barely see the whole picture of the room...
Just from the statement of one of the police officers about what he saw in front of him, you can imagine how terrible the picture was:
"As soon as the sun came in, we noticed a skinny woman lying naked on a rotten grass mat.
Her hands and feet were chained, and she was covered with a blanket that was too dirty to work.
Surrounded by a pile of excrement, minced meat, rotten vegetables, bread, and rotten fish, you can see stinky oyster shells and all kinds of bugs running around on the bed! ”
It was confirmed that this person was the young daughter of the family, Blanche, who had disappeared many years ago!
Why was this woman imprisoned in this place for so many years?
One day in 1876, at the age of 27, Blanche met an older lawyer.
Although the other party is a poor man who is penniless, the two people who fell in love at first sight quickly fell in love.
However, at that time, Mrs. Monier, who could only live on the inheritance of her deceased husband, was full of expectations that the daughters of the countless suitors behind her would marry into the rich, so that the whole family could continue to maintain a high-end life.
Therefore, when she learned of her daughter's love affair, she strongly opposed the relationship that her daughter chose herself.
Unexpectedly, the daughter was unwilling to give in to reality, and stubbornly said that she would never marry any of the marriage partners arranged by her mother!
As a result, in order to stop Brownche, Mrs. Monnier and her son joined hands to imprison her in the attic and nail the window!
And this cruel mother also greeted the neighbors in advance, lying that her daughter was unfortunate to be crazy, so she would cry and scream in despair in the middle of the night.
In this way, it is a complete cut off of The Back Road for Blanche to ask for help from outsiders...
Soon after, the mother and son lied to the outside world that Blanche had died.
He also deliberately held a funeral to hide his eyes and ears, and then continued to live as if none of this had happened.
The lawyer lover of Blanche died unexpectedly in 1885, and no one has investigated it since.
The poor woman lived in darkness all day, eating every day leftovers thrown to the ground by her servants and being forced to excrete where she slept.
She was even eaten by rats and bugs for a long time, and in this isolated life, she almost lost her language ability and was on the verge of collapse!
This level is a full 25 years...
It was later rumored that the anonymous whistleblower had been written by the boyfriend of a servant in the Monier family, and he couldn't resist revealing it to the attorney general when he heard about it.
Blanche was finally rescued, but at the age of 50, she lost only 55 pounds (about 25 kilograms) and was on the verge of death!
Even after being rescued, she was urgently sent to the hospital for treatment, and later the doctors and nurses also took good care of her.
But in her later years she was plagued by mental illnesses including anorexia nervosa, schizophrenia, exposure, and fecal lozenges, and eventually died in a mental hospital in 1913.
After Brownche was rescued, her tragic deeds were once reported by major media.
The terrible details shocked countless people, and they demanded that the court punish Monier mother and son as perpetrators!
Even some angry people surrounded Mrs. Monnier's house, frightening her to heart disease, and eventually she died of illness on the 15th day after her arrest!
And the brother Marcel, who was initially convicted, expressed dissatisfaction with the initial sentence and appealed for acquittal.
As a result, since there was no obligation to "save the trapped" in French criminal law at that time, the court did not have enough legislation to convict him, allowing him to escape the punishment of the law and was only verbally criticized by the judge...
The miserable life of this poor girl,
It's a shame...