L’authentique Auberge Rouge de Peyrebeille, (Ardèche)

Bernard Bost, on July 2, said:

Le grand père de mon grand père devait passer souvent devant l’auberge rouge… Il faisait le transport du bois jusqu’au Puy en Velay.

Bernard Bost, on August 17, said:

The inn of Peyrebeille visits every day that God makes. This Inn is more known under the name of red Inn because it was the place of abominable one criminal affair at the beginning of the XIX th century. It had hundred and fifty mass murders. During almost twenty three years, near the years 1805-1830, the couple Pierre and Marie Martin, ancient poor farmers become owners of the inn, would have robbed more than hundred and fifty travellers before murdering them, with the complicity of their domestic. Martin and their domestic would have removed the corpses of their victims by burning them in the oven of the kitchen of the Inn. But their greed will make attract to them the attention of people of surroundings towns and will lead them to the loss: they were arrested. Their lawsuit opened to the assizes from the Ardèche Department in Privas in 1833. The couple Martin and their domestic Rochette were all three persons condemned to death. They were returned from Privas on the scene of their misdeeds to be guillotined in the court of their inn. The big stone in front of the inn marks the precise place where they were guillotined.

L’auberge de Peyrebeille se visite tous les jours que Dieu fait. Cette Auberge est plus connue sous le nom d’Auberge rouge parce qu’elle fut le lieu d'une abominable affaire criminelle au début du XIXe siècle. Cent cinquante assassinats en série. Pendant près de vingt-trois ans, aux alentours des années 1805-1830, les époux Pierre et Marie Martin, d'anciens fermiers pauvres devenus propriétaires de l'auberge, auraient détroussé plus de cent cinquante voyageurs avant de les assassiner, avec la complicité de leur domestique. Les Martin et leur domestique auraient fait disparaître les cadavres de leurs victimes en les brûlant dans le four de la cuisine de l’Auberge. Mais leur cupidité fera attirer sur eux l'attention des gens des villages alentours et les conduira à leur perte : ils furent arrêtés. Leur procès s'ouvrit aux assises de l'Ardèche à Privas en 1833. Les époux Martin et leur domestique Rochette furent tous les trois condamnés à mort. Ils furent ramenés de Privas sur les lieux de leurs méfaits afin d'être guillotinés dans la cour même de leur auberge. La grande pierre devant l’auberge marque l’endroit précis où ils furent guillotinés.

Slainte, Amitiés,

Bernard (Back from holidays… De retour de vacances…)

Bernard Bost, on August 18, said:

My grand, grand father was not rich. The mother Martin spied through a small window on people in the dining room to see if they had money before murdering them. She had to well see that my grand, grand father had no money. And then he lived in 5 km of the inn. Thus he has spent there never the night. People were killed when they went up to go to bed. The couple Martin killed them when they went up the staircase, in the dark. They made spend bodies by a trapdoor, under the staircase, in the bend. They stole the money and the jewels. Then they burned bodies in the chimney. Brreeeuuuu…

I had four weeks of holidays, as all the French people … I shoot a lot of photos which I am adding in Panoramio.

Cheers, Bernard

PastLife, on August 20, said:

Yesterday I saw a very gifted psychic who’s accuracy about various things has always been mind-blowing. We talked about my last past life, she writes for 15 minutes in somewhat of a trance and that my name was Pierre Martin. Because of the precision of the details she provided I easily found information about "L'Auberge Rouge" an event I knew nothing about.

She wrote that as Pierre Martin I was wrongly accused of the crime that there was a conspiracy against me by two jealous villagers (the same 2 people that have betrayed me in this lifetime!). They would have tortured Pierre Martin to find where he hid his money as well as tortured and burnt a breast and tongue of Marie Breysse (in my life now as well as who was Jean Rochette). She also wrote that six months later the two liars died getting their intestines devoured by wolves. It would be interesting if there would be documentation on such an event.

I share this story because it’s interesting and that I have no doubt in her ability to receive information that the common man has no access to. I have briefly read about this story and some historians seem to believe there was a lot of flaws and inaccuracies in the accusations.

The idea that my former self could have lived through such things is fascinating and eerie.

Bernard Bost, on August 22, said:

Hi Harry! But nothing prevents you from coming on holidays to the red inn. They built a hotel just in quoted. Besides, you will be in the quiet because there’re only forests in the surroundings.

Amitiés, Bernard