Montselgues

Montselgues is a common French, located in the department of the Ardèche and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Located at the extreme south of the mountain ardéchoise, in edge of the Cevennes valleys, the small village of Montselgues, on a plate with 1020m of altitude, fact part of the Regional natural park of the Mounts of Ardeche. Located on the southern slope of the Tanargue, Montselgues profits from the Mediterranean climate while being to more than 1000 meters of altitude. The winters are however rigorous.

One reaches it by a road going along the cornice of the Cevennes Vivarais: splendid panorama and landscapes.

History

Two versions are worth as for the origin of the name " Montselgues":

In the first, Montselgues would like to say " the mount with the seigle" since it is one of the rare cereals which pushes well in this mountainous region. The population would have been nourished a long time almost exclusively of rye and, although, nowadays, one cannot see it, the majority of the grounds were employed to make some push.
In the second version, which rests on a bubble of the pope Clément IV going back to 1262, Montselgues would like to say “the mount of the skies” in homage to the church established there at the 12th century by the monks of Saint-Chaffre in Velay.

The history of common was mainly marked by the muleteers who passed by there going in Puy in Velay. During the second world war, maquis were listed not far from Montselgues with Thines and of parachutings of weapons would have been carried out on the plate of Montselgues

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Places and monuments

Romance Church of the 12th century built by the monks of Saint-Chaffre, depend on the abbey of Monastier

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