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Le Pont-de-Montvert is a commune in the Lozère département in southern France. It is located in the heart of the Parc National des Cévennes. The inhabitants of Le Pont-de-Montvert are called ''Pontoises'' or ''Montvertipontains''. ==History== Late Neolithic standing stones called the menhirs of the Cham des Bondons, the largest concentration of menhirs in the south of France, bear mute witness to the long prehistory of human occupation here. The village was a fief of the Knights Hospitaller. Guillaume de Grimoard, future pope under the name of Urban V, was born in the ''Château de Grizac'' here in 1309. The picturesquely sited structure, no larger than a farm, reveals its defensive nature by its narrow windows, perched high in its granite walls, and its four-square tower, now topless. Charles V exempted the ''seigneurie de Grizac'' from all taxes, a privilege its lords maintained until the Revolution. In the 17th century it remained a local center of ardent French Protestants ("Huguenots") in a traditionally highly independent region; an incident in the village, the assassination on 24 July 1702 of the repressive abbé de Chayla, sparked the rebellion of the Camisards.〔Pierre-Jean Ruff, 2008. ''Le temple du Rouve, lieu de mémoire des Camisards''. Editions Lacour-Ollé, Nîmes.(The first Camisards and freedom of conscience )〕 The Huguenots elites of the neighbouring village of Fraissinet-de-Lozère chose nevertheless to fight against the rebels.〔See the forthcoming publication Ghislain Baury, ''La dynastie Rouvière de Fraissinet-de-Lozère. Les élites villageoises dans les Cévennes protestantes à l'époque moderne d'après un fonds documentaire inédit (1403-1908)'', Sète, Les Nouvelles Presses du Languedoc, 2010, http://sites.google.com/site/dynastierouviere/〕 The Protestant ''Temple de Vialas'' survives in the hamlet of Vialas nearby. The cattle market still held at Easter also has a long history. Robert Louis Stevenson passed through Pont-de-Montvert on the ramble narrated in his ''Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'' (1879), one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities. Today Stevenson fans retrace the ''route Stevenson'' on hiking paths (GR 70) some of which are transhumance routes taken annually by shepherds and their flocks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Le Pont-de-Montvert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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