The town is bordered on the south by the Loire and crossed by the Cisse. A stream, the Mesland, also called the Bief, joins the Cisse.
The fountain of the town feeds the wash house, before flowing into the Mesland. This fountain probably has a Roman, Gallic, or even older origin: Father Blaive, in the nineteenth century, spotted a very old construction on the edge of this source, without further details.
The washhouse was built around 1830, and in 1849 a small basin was added to the washhouse, followed in 1892 by a chimney to make the « buée » (laundry) as they say in the Tourangeau dialect.
On August, the 5th, in 1944, the washhouse was destroyed by the explosion of a bomb thrown by a passive defence plane because a car was driving with its headlights on. The washhouse remained in use in the first half of the 20th century. Its use was gradually abandoned following the appearance of washing machines.
The current “Place de la Fontaine” was redeveloped at the end of the 20th century.