Le Pont-de-Montvert (French pronunciation: [lə pɔ̃ də mɔ̃vɛʁ]; Occitan: Lo Pònt de Montverd) is a former commune in the Lozère département in southern France.
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.
In the 17th century it remained a local centre 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 of Chayla, François Langlade, sparked the rebellion of the Camisards.
The main village, Pont-de-Montvert (870 m altitude) at the base of the south-facing slopes of Mont Lozère, has retained the stony granite-built traditional aspect of its closely built centre, surrounding by outlying hamlets.
Robert Louis Stevenson passed through Pont-de-Montvert on the ramble narrated in his Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879),[6] one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities.