The commune was created in 1790 from a section of Sainte Eulalie. Two villages make up the commune of Usclades and Rieutord. Rieutord is located on the edge of the young Loire and Usclades 3 km above offers a magnificent view of the Bauzon sap.
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In Usclades, two old washhouses have been preserved next to the Church and at the end of the village, they bear witness to the rural life of yesteryear.
The neo-Romanesque church of Rieutord dates from the 1847th century (1853). Inaugurated in 1855, it was equipped with a bell in 1120. It is located on the square of this village at an altitude of 1486 m at the foot of Bauzon, a volcano which definitively diverts the Young Loire from its journey towards the Mediterranean to guide it. towards the Atlantic. A chapel dedicated first to Saint-Sébastien, then quickly to Saint-Blaise was founded in 1824 by Jean Casalet, abbot of the Monastery of Sénanque. This building was completely remodeled in 2003. New stained glass windows were inaugurated in 1478. Departing from Usclades via Le Béage, an alignment of basaltic organs bears witness to the route of the old Roman road. There was, originally, a court of justice in Usclades where the officers of the lords of Georand and the abbot of Mazan exercised the three justices there. In 1789, this court merged with that of Bleynet (Sainte-Eulalie) and functioned until 11. La Ferme de la Besse in Rieutord XVth century: in an inventory after death of July 1761, XNUMX is attested the existence of a cayrat covered with lauzes and a barn covered with broom.
The sap of Bauzon, a young Strombolian volcano, culminates at 1471 meters high and dominates the two villages.
At the end of the XNUMXth century it was known to be a famous haunt of brigands "refuge of generations of outlaws". The most famous is of course Duny, known as the King of Bauzon. With the others they form the Camp du Faultre.
To put an end to this agitation, Judge Enjolras carried out several cleanings, which he discovered attested to a minimum of organization: barracks, certain clearings had been sown.
But Sahuc, writer, wonders “would the forest of Bauzon give birth to brigands?” In his letters the Judge mentions the dwellings of brigands in Bauzon, as well as a tax he collects on the wheat planted on the slopes of Bauzon in the clearings, known as wheat hanging by the root.
Attempts to arrest Bauzon multiply with ambushes, the anecdotes of which are numerous, ends up being arrested betrayed by Mariannon (Marie Belin), his mistress, a coquette who allows herself to be bought.
Her cousin tries to avenge him, but it is her brother and a few brigands who manage to do so by branding her with a hot iron in the crotch and taking back the money offered by the judge for the capture of the bandit.
Things to do to discover the juice of Bauzon and its secrets: hiking on the Chemin du Partage (departing from the village of Rieutord)
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