Le Breuil-sur-Couze

This village became an operation centre of mineral water by chance. In 1908, the Brassac Coal Board was looking for new deposits. One of its soundings, at 200m, made water spring. Some inhabitants used it to cure little injuries and noticed that the healing was speeding up. To run this spring, a firm saw the day in 1912: the Hydroxydase Company thus called for the oxydo-reductive power of the water.
For a long time, it has been home-made, but now, the operation of the spring is industrial, with a production sold only at the chemist’s for its therapy powers. A bypass of the Couze, called Béal, cross the village and made work a mill which is still visible near the castle. Until the middle of the 20th century, it supplied also fountains and wash-houses and irrigated numerous orchards.