Montchauvet, also known as Mont Chauvet, is a mountain located in the Margeride massif, reaching an altitude of 1,485 meters in the Haute-Loire department.

[3] Encircled by a beech forest, the mountain features heathland with ling heather, blueberries, and raspberries in the summer.

"[4] The deserted medieval village of Montchauvet, rediscovered since the first archaeological work in 1965, was inhabited between the 10th and 15th centuries.

[5] The village, built on the slope of Montchauvet, is surrounded by terraced fields, indicating the expansion of agricultural land.

[6][7] It appears to have not survived the Little Ice Age, the Great Plague, and the Routiers who plundered the strongholds and villages of the Archpriest of Saugues after the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360.