Vodable

Vodable lies beneath the volcanic heights of the Puy d'Ysson in Auvergne. Its castle was the principal residence of the Dauphins of Auvergne in the thirteenth century. Among them was Robert, a knight and poet who wrote of his quarrels with Philip Augustus of France and Richard the Lionheart of England. The dauphins abandoned the castle in 1380; it later became a refuge for brigands and was destroyed on Richelieu's orders in 1633.