The Cornebarrieu to Levignac line is a disused route that used to be managed by the CFSO, the Railways Company of the South-West. The 16 km long section was a metre gauge railway, that is, it had a one metre track gauge, a standard that was in use on local lines. It was in operation between 1912 and 1946. It branched off the Toulouse-Cornebarrieu-Cadours line. It used to go through Mondonville, Daux, Montaigut-St Paul and Lévignac. On average, two trains from Cadours and two from Lévignac went through the station* daily.

In order to span the steep, narrow valley of the Gajea, a robust bridge was built out of pebbles from the Garonne river cemented together, with a brick facing.

*The station is now a private property and can still be seen at #3 on the Pibrac road.

It has been established thanks to archeological excavations in the park surrounding the spring that the site was used from a very early date. Indeed a number of items such as prehistoric axes and Roman coins were unearthed in the course of these digs. The small construction that stands around the spring was in all probability rebuilt in the 19th century.

The Wellspring of Love got its name from a tale according to which two lovers drinking from it together will be granted love and fertility: seven times seven years of happiness and seven “pitchouns” (little ones), provided they drink the water seven times out of each other’s hands.

Prior to the roadworks for the IGG (Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit) – the special route meant for the transportation of Airbus A380 parts – there were preemptive archeological excavations that unearthed an Acheulean site* at the Labadie hamlet. The site is characterized by large quantities of quartzites and gave rise to first-rate scientific discoveries; in particular, it significantly extended what we know of the prehistoric human groups who lived in Mondonville between 350 000 and 200 000 BCE.

*Stone manufacture of the Lower Paleolithic

• Robert Esparbès : Si Mondonville m’était conté.
• Bruxelles, A.-L. Berthet, P. Chalard, D. Colonge, G. Delfour, M. Jarry, L.-A. Lelouvier, T. Arnoux et O. Onézime : Le paléolithique inférieur et moyen en Midi toulousain : nouvelles données et perspectives de l’archéologie préventive, PALEO, 15 | 2003, 7-28.