The Tartonne salt spring was granted to the inhabitants by Queen Jeanne in 1402. The layout visible today probably dates from the modern era.
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The layout visible today around the spring already existed in 1732, when the consuls of Tartonne awarded a repair contract to Honoré Giraud, a mason from Clumanc. Giraud was to demolish and rebuild the north and west walls identically, raise all the walls to reduce the slope, render them and cover the building in stone. Achard's dictionary, published in 1788, describes the salt spring as a well containing a large wooden tank and fitted with two locks, the keys to which were kept by the...
