That year, Blanche Monnier, drew the attention of many potential ... particularly after André Gide’s 1930 book, La Séquestrée de Poitiers, which retold her story. Gide, a Nobel Prize-winning ...
It was all that was left of that woman they were looking for. Marcel Monnier identified her as his sister. Blanche Monnier, once young and beautiful, was 52 years old that day when she was rescued ...