A legend says that monsieur Carle, a very important man from Les Vigneaux, president of the provincial parliament of Grenoble, wanted to leave an indelible mark of his life in the memory of his fellow citizens. He decided to ask a young Italian painter to paint a fresco to decorate the southern facade of the church of Saint-Laurant: since he was firmly convinced of the fidelity of his wife Louise and of his own blamelessness, he picked the theme of the vices and virtues and charged his wife to watch over the works.

The beautiful Louise didn’t turn out exactly insensitive to the beauty of the young Italian and seduced him within a few days. Still not satisfied, an evening when her husband was in Grenoble, he took part in his place to a party at the house of the Lord of Rame. No need to say that, in the absence of her husband and of her lover, the Lord of Rame took care of the lonely woman.

Still not happy, on the next day, Louise went supervising the work of the painter with her new lover, rousing in the heart of the young painter a wild desire of revenge. So the fresco was completed with the portraits of Louise, in the shoes of Lust, monsieur Carle, in the roles of Anger, and the lord of Rame, with the appearance of Pride.

When the husband was back, he say the fresco and understood what had happened. In turn, he meditated revenge. After paying and sending away the painter, he made fast his wife’s mule for several days, and then he invited Louise to go with him to visit a village not far away. As soon as the thirsty mule came near to a creek, Louise lost control of the animal and it drag her into the water, drowning her.

The revenge of the betrayed husband was so consumed, and he got away by having a Mass said for the deceased wife in the church of Saint-Laurant.