Auberge : noun A hostel is a hotel or hotel-restaurant, often of a high class, but rustic in appearance.
Take someone's house for an inn: settle there, go to dinner often without being invited or wanted.
Not to have left the hostel : Not to be done with the difficulties or the troubles.
We did not leave the hostel : the difficulties increase, will delay us, hold us back.
This is a seemingly odd XNUMXth-century phrase, as it seems difficult to associate trouble with an inn, usually meant to be welcoming. The Auberge de Peyrebeille, known as L'auberge rouge, apart from that, when you decide to leave such a place, nothing prevents us from doing so, as long as we have paid our due. We must therefore turn to slang and more precisely that of thieves to understand the meaning of this expression. Indeed, in this world, the term inn designates the prison, this place where the thief finds food and shelter, as in an inn, once he has been captured and condemned. Suffice to say that once he is locked up there, not only is he far from having finished with the troubles of captivity, promiscuity and various abuses, among others, but he will have great difficulty coming out of it on his own. chief.
This expression gave a complementary one which is to leave the hostel to "get out of a bad situation", therefore problems due to the painful situation in which we found ourselves.
Related article: Spanish hotel.