Cliched photographs capture farm workers halting from their labours in idyllic landscapes or old men resting from their games of petanque outside the village bar as a nation applauds the peloton. Le Tour representsour annual renewal of anydiminished affection for France as the riders negotiate stages whose evocative names resonate almost magically in our psyche.

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