The hamlet of Saint-Véran, perched high on a rocky outcrop above the gorge, is the birthplace of the de Montcalm family. It was in 1425 that Raymond Montcalm former barber-surgeon Count John IV, Count of Armagnac, paid tribute to him for use according to the feudal land of Saint Véran and undivided half of hiscastle.

       In 1470 when the Castle of Saint Véran was under royal sequestration, Count Charles d'Armagnac rebuked by surprise and sat with a small group of thirty armed men. Accused of hitting counterfeit money and there practicing alchemy he was besieged there by the Seneschal of Rodez, Guillaume de Sully in December 1470. In the early days of January following, he finally surrendered with his bastard son, little John and his squire Marestan Guéraud. Charles d'Armagnac will be made for those imprisoned in the Bastille where he will be released only in 1483 after the death of Louis XI.

          But it was not until 1661 that Louis de Montcalm III by buying the other half will actually full Lord of Saint-Véran. The family then retain this fief until the revolution. Louis Joseph de Saint Véran, Marquis Montcalm, appointed by King Louis XV in-chief of his forces in North America will be the ultimate living just before his departure for Canada in February 1758.

          The castle which was built in the early eleventh century subsite now a part of the house and its ségneurial cylindrical keep.