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Son of a former Tour de France commissioner, Patrick Le Gall evokes the history of the Tour de France from 1903 to 1996, from Anquetil to Indurain, from Coppi to Poulidor, passing by the coaches, the groupies, the heroes and the anonymous. Unpublished archive images show the great and small sides of the race. These images revisited by the emotion will be a good moment to discover the world of cycling otherwise.
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