The night before the taking of Lyon by the forces of the Convention on October 9th 1793, a part of the insurgent made a sortie by the porte de Vaise. After a calamitous journey across the Lyonnais and the Beaujolais, the last fugitives were caught and cut in pieces at the Mont Popey.

Those events have so strongly affected people's mind around the village of Theizé, that, two centuries later, they still arouse rumours and polemics.

The autor has gathered and analysed those rumours before confronting them to the events of October 1793, the history of which he reconstructed using contemporary sources.