Blanche monnier

Agnes on Instagram: "‘In Paris 1876, 25-year-old Blanche Monnier was a typical socialite scrambling to find a suitor before it was too late. She fell in love with an older, broke lawyer, who her aristocratic mother disliked, and set her heart on marrying him. Madame Louise forbade Blanche from seeing the man. Blanche refused, at which point her mother begged her daughter to end to the affair. Blanche once more refused. Realizing that she would never persuade Blanche away from the penniless…

Sometimes we come across photos that seem to be normal on the surface, but in the back of the mind, we do know something is off about the subject.

Children’s clothing evolved as time went by during the Victorian era. Many of these styles mirrored the adult styles of the day to some exte...

Portrait colourisation of Blanche Monnier, a tragic French socialite who was locked in a dark room by her mother and brother for 25 years. Her crime? Falling in love with the "wrong" men and wanting to marry against her family wishesBlanche Monnier (French pronunciation: 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"),was a woman from Poitiers, Vienne, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her…

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She was a beautiful woman. Just a sad life.

Locked away by her mother in one room for 25 years

"Rapunzel" by Tasha Tudor. Illustration to be found in the "Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales" (Platt and Munk, 1969).

. a Lesley Blanche illustration for Pamela Hinkson's 1933 British Vogue story about one of my favorite subjects- dogs & in this case their national origins. 'Admittedly it is as common for women to express their clothes, as for their clothes to express them. Yet in these islands it is in our dogs that we often best express ourselves, or sometimes-they turning the tables on us- express them. They express our way of living as well as, or better than, we do ourselves.' Pamela Hinkson…