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Roman road-The inn-Pierre Martin, his wife, and man-Haussmann / at the inn-Number of murders committed never known-Claude / Béraud-Assassination of an unknown man-A body boiled-Vincent / Boyer-Murder of an old man-Marriage of the youngest / daughter-Michel Hugon-Robbery of a pedlar woman-Marriage of the / eldest daughter-Murder of Anjolras-Testud and the barrel of / bran-Arrest of the Martins and their man-Difficulty of procuring / evidence-Execution.
The story of the Tavern of Peyrabeille is, perhaps, the most ghastly in the annals of crime, but I give it here partly because it has been so overladen and altered by fiction that the facts have disappeared in a cloud of fable; mainly because that story reveals, in a manner nothing else could, some of the characteristics of the Cevenol peasant.