Auberge Rouge
The Auberge Rouge (also called L'Auberge de Peyrebeille ) is a former hostel on a high plateau at an altitude of 1265 m in the area of the municipality of Lanarce in the Ardèche department . The inn was conveniently located on today's national road 102 between Aubenas and Le Puy-en-Velay in the Rhône-Alpes region and on the border with the Haute-Loire department and between the Auvergne and Languedoc-Roussillon regions .
It is believed that between 1807 and 1833 fifty-three travelers came from the landlord Pierre Martin, his wife Marie Martin nee. Breysse and domestic servant Jean Rochette were killed and robbed. During the meal, the guests were overheard through a hole in the wall by the innkeeper and the assistant, whereupon the innkeeper and the servant ambushed the victims in a side room by the stairs to the rooms and killed them. These stairs are quite steep; You can still see the wooden beam on which the victims usually hit their heads after being struck. Subsequently, the corpses were partly burned in the oven and partly deposited in the area. The hostel had several guest rooms. The rooms of the landlord Martin and the assistant Rochette were in front of the other rooms, so that one could ambush the guests unnoticed. There were other overnight accommodations in a barn by the house.
At the end of October 1831, the body of a murdered man was found not far from the inn. Witnesses had last seen him there. The innkeepers and their employees were arrested and sentenced to death in a trial lasting several days with many witnesses. On October 2, 1833, the Martins and their assistant Rochette were guillotined in front of their inn . Up to 30,000 spectators are said to have been present. Today a granite stone reminds of the place where the guillotine stood. The death masks of the three executed are now in a museum in Le Puy-en-Velay.
The hostel has now been converted into a well-attended museum. A motel with a restaurant has been built next to the old Auberge Rouge .
Honoré de Balzacs L'Auberge rouge
The French writer Honoré de Balzac wrote the story L'Auberge rouge ( The Red Hostel ) in 1831 , but it has no connection with the events in Peyrebeille. In it Balzac tells of a murder in a German inn in Andernach on the Middle Rhine .
The Auberge rouge in the film
| year | country | Director | colour | volume | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | France | Claude Autant-Lara | b / w | mono | Also known as: The Red Hostel with Fernandel , Françoise Rosay and Julien Carette |
| 2007 | France | Gérard Krawczyk | colour | Dolby Digital | with Christian Clavier , Josiane Balasko and Gérard Jugnot |
