Tiretaine

The Tiretaine is a small river which takes its source in Font Tree (Commune Frenchwoman of Orcines in the Chaîne of Puys in Auvergne. It is an affluent of the Artière and Bédat.

It inspired Jean Maupoint which made a song of it.

Geography

Tiretaine has its resurgence in the village of Make-in-the Arbre. Its valley of origin having been filled there is 40 000 years by the casting of a volcano covered since by Puy de Dôme (there is 10 000 years), this torrent, enlarged by the brook of Vaucluse which goes down from Manson, a new bed dug: the valley of Royat.

It is the river which passing by Royat and Chamalières crosses the town of Clermont-Ferrand where it separates on the level from the thermal park from Royat in several arms on both sides from the Maar from Clermont . It crosses inter alia, the site Michelin of the Carmelite friars (international seat of the group) then the cemetery of the same name immediately afterwards. It is thrown in two distinct rivers: Artière in the south and Bédat in north.

It fed the ditches of the ramparts (built at the 13th century, given up at the 18th century) of what was at the time the town of Montferrand. According to Gabriel Baker, to the 15th century, Tiretaine passed outside the ramparts, whereas in the last state of the ramparts, it penetrated in the enclosure close to the north-western angle to come out from it in the east.

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