Montvert

Missions as he sat in his prison-house at Pont de Montvert: the voices of many men upraised in psalmody drew nearer and nearer through the town.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I should find it difficult to tell in what particulars Pont de Montvert differed from Monastier or Langogne, or even

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Pont de Montvert, or Greenhill Bridge, as we might say at home, is a place memorable in the story of the Camisards.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Montvert, near which was the Arch-priest's residence.

Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Pierre Nouvel was condemned to be burnt alive at the bridge of Montvert, Molise Bonnet to be broken on the wheel at Deveze, and Esprit Seguier to be hanged at Andre-de-Lancise.

Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

One went towards Soustele and the neighbourhood of Alais, another towards St. Privat and the bridge of Montvert, while the third followed the mountain slope down to St. Roman le Pompidou, and Barre.

Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Broglie crossed the Upper Cevennes, and marched down to the bridge of Montvert, followed by several companies of fusiliers.

Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

So M. de Broglie, concluding that nothing could be done against enemies who were invisible, disbanded the troops which had come to his aid, and went back to Montpellier, leaving a company of fusiliers at Collet, another at Ayres, one at the bridge of Montvert, one at Barre, and one at Pompidon, and appointing Captain Poul as their chief.

Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836