Maurice Chevance, Marcelle Bidault, Jeannine Frèze-Milhaud and Jean Multon (who will turn out to be a double agent).:269-271 During this meeting, she made the mistake of revealing a contact in the Lyon region, the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Mâcon. This mistake was to prove fatal. Arrest and death Klaus Barbie hoped to trap Henri Frenay by using Berty Albrecht as bait. He arranged for a false message to be sent to Albrecht, telling her of the arrival of a person from Marseilles whom she knew (Jean Multon, who appears to have been the person who betrayed her:269-271) and who wished to give her news of Maurice Chevance, a close associate of Henri Frenay in the resistance. Berty went to the meeting and was arrested by the Abwehr and the Gestapo of Lyon on May 28, 1943 in Mâcon, in the presence of Klaus Barbie, Robert Auguste Moog and Jean Multon. While being arrested, she shouted warning to fellow resistance operatives: “Attention, friends, the Gestapo is here! ".:260 In her bag, Barbie found an envelope addressed to the Gouze family in Cluny where Albrecht had spent the night. The Gestapo searched the Gouze's house and the couple was interrogated and then released. Returning empty-handed, Barbie locked Albrecht up and tortured her at the Hôtel Terminus, the headquarters of the SIPO-SD in Mâcon.:261 Although Barbie did not succeed in arresting Frenay, he quickly realized that Albrecht herself was an important prize. He therefore decided to move her immediately to Paris. On May 31, 1943, she was transferred to Fresnes prison near Paris, in the section for common law prisoners. Following an additional torture session, she was found hanged the same day, probably by suicide in order to avoid revealing information to the enemy. She would have said: “Life is not worth much, dying is not serious. The whole thing is to live in accordance with honor and the ideal that one has for oneself. » Abrecht was buried in the prison's vegetable garden in tomb number 347.:266 On August 26, 1943, she was made a Companion of the Liberation. In his tribute on October 6, 1943, Frenay declared on the BBC: "I cannot say all that France owes her, because though she is dead, the resistance is still very much alive". Burial and legacy In May 1945, Albrecht's remains were discovered in the Fresnes prison grounds. After the war, the French government