Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a
brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the
1940s. A returned soldier tried to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917
and her 'bungalow' was at the centre of underworld violence in the
1920s. She returned to France before WWII to visit family and was bombed
repeatedly out of homes there and captured by the Germans. She was a
prisoner of war and one story has her in a concentration camp. She
survived, returned to Perth in 1947, and took up business again in Roe
Street, having made a fortune from the rent collected from her brothels
while she was a prisoner of war, up until her death in 1953.