In 19th-century France, a bizarre event occurred, a Miss Qianjin from a prestigious family disappeared overnight, and no one saw her again.
Many people thought she should have eloped with a man, but an anonymous letter 25 years later revealed the cruel truth and turned the case six upside down. This article will take you to explore this sensational disappearance in 19th-century France.
Born into the giants Blanche. Blanche Monnier is a 25-year-old young lady with sweet facial features, who was loved by her father from an early age, but when her father died, her strong mother became the head of the family and controlled her daughter's every move. There is no shortage of suitors for the young and beautiful Blanche, and according to common sense, she should be promised to a rich man who is right at the door, but Blanche falls in love with a penniless lawyer, and she sneaks out of the window every day to meet her lover; however, such a move is discovered by the mother, who is firmly opposed to the two of them, hoping that the daughter will cut off contact with the poor lawyer.
One day, Blanche suddenly disappeared! Many people speculated that she should have eloped with her lover despite her family's opposition and ran to live in a foreign country, and the local major media also rushed to report the news of "Miss Qianjin disappeared out of thin air", causing a sensation in France, and everyone was curious about the reason for Miss Blanche's mysterious disappearance. The disappearance has been forgotten over time; however, 25 years later, prosecutors received an anonymous letter that turned the case upside down.
On 23 May 1901, the Attorney General of Paris received an unsigned letter in which he read: "Mr. Attorney General, I must inform you of a very serious matter, a woman trapped in the house of Madame Monnier, who has been starving for the past 25 years, and whose room is full of rotten garbage and excrement.
The Prosecutor General immediately contacted the police to investigate, but because Miss Blanche's family had local prestige, the police were initially suspicious, and after considering it for a long time, they decided to search for the residence desperately, they found a room on the second floor of the mansion that was locked by chains and large locks, and after breaking the door, the pungent stench made them stop, and there was an extremely emaciated and malnourished middle-aged woman on the bed in the dim room in front of them, and she was the missing woman - Blanche. Monnier.
One police officer once described the tragic situation in Blanche's room: the unfortunate woman lying naked on a rotting bed, surrounded by feces, meat scraps, vegetables, fish and rotten bread... We also saw oyster shells, and bugs crawled over Miss Blanche's bed. The air was hard to breathe, the room was smelling of snoring, and we couldn't stay any longer to continue our investigation.
The disappearance case many years ago was finally closed, and the French police and the public suddenly realized that Miss Blanche had not eloped with her lover at all, and that she had been imprisoned alone in a dark room for many years. The police's follow-up investigation found that the murderer who had imprisoned Blanche was her mother, who decided to lock her up in order to prevent her daughter from continuing to associate with the poor lawyer, while Blanche's brother pretended that nothing had happened and continued a normal life.
However, the mother arrested by the police, because she could not stand the pressure of the masses, died of a heart attack within a rainy week, and did not receive the criminal punishment she deserved. Then Blanche was taken to the hospital for treatment, and the paramedics found that she had not bathed for 25 years, weighing less than 25 kilograms, and only the twisted figure of the skin and bones was left. In the process of healing at the hospital, Blanche was unusually calm, and she silently scribbled the rain on the wall of the ward
Word: freedom. Eventually, Blanche spent his old age in a nursing home at the age of 64. The anonymous letter never found the sender, perhaps because someone in the family found it in his conscience and chose to rescue poor Miss Blanche.
Blanche's good youth was buried because of love, and her brother once declared in court that her sister could be released at any time as long as she lowered her posture, and she herself did not want to leave. Maybe Blanche really didn't want to give up true love and succumb to his mother, so he decided to be imprisoned and live a hellish life with only his attachment to love.