Auberge du Portail
Names: Auberge du Portailthe aubergechez Guderianthe innl'Auberge du Portail
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 9 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 9Madame Guderian's inn near Lyon, built as a legal cover and screening service for would-be time travelers; it was licensed as a public accommodation, common carrier, counseling service and travel agency.
- Ch 12The auberge near Lyon is where Exile candidates are processed; its staff are used to clients arriving drunk.
- Ch 13The auberge has an office styled after a fifteenth-century abbess's study, with a portrait of Madame over the fireplace.
- Ch 16The auberge, run by Madame Guderian, gives departing timefarers luxurious comforts and lessons in wilderness survival before they go through the gate.
- Ch 16The auberge's lectures and films on Pliocene ecology barely mentioned insects and other invertebrates, favoring dramatic large mammals.
- Ch 18The auberge hides the time-portal apparatus inside a quaint cottage in its gardens; it trains Exiles in primitive survival.
Connections
- led byMadame Guderian
- inLyonwestern foothills near Lyon
- inSaint-Antoine-des-Vignesa few kilometers away
- created byMadame Guderianfoundress
- related toMany-Colored Landhosts the time-gate to the Pliocene
- has memberCounselor Mishima
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 9Richter passes through the time-gate
Poet Karl Josef Richter pays Madame Guderian a large sum; she sends him and his dog Schatzi to the Pliocene, becoming the first time-tripper.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Founding of the Auberge du Portail
Madame Guderian turns the time-gate into a screened business, building an inn, setting criteria for travelers and defeating official attempts to suppress it.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Arrival at the auberge
The costumed pair arrive drunk at l'Auberge du Portail, pound on the door with the axe, and are put to bed by attendants.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Felice assaults the counselor
Shonkwiler pressures Felice to accept therapy and wait, but mentions the recidivist clause as an age loophole. Felice, only feigning meekness, thanks him and breaks his collarbones.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Claude prepares for survival training day
Claude wakes at the auberge, enjoys its luxuries, dresses in his chosen gate kit, packs Gen's box, and reviews the second day's survival-training program.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Bry's farewell letter
On the eve of passage through the time-portal, Bry writes to Varya describing Group Green, his plans as a sailor and fisherman, and his fears about the reception in the Pliocene.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Aftermath at the auberge
Counselors find the ashes, the torc and the amber messages in the gazebo and take them to the director.