The Tour de France starts from Nice, “very nice, very Nice”, as Claude Nougaro sings it. A Tour in September: it's a first and it's perfect! September is a wonderful month. In September, the light is delicious in the mountains. In the Pyrenees, the animals that have come down from the highest pastures are already waiting for the peloton in the passes, on the Benou plateau in particular. The Tour in September, right back to school: it's perfect for the students! They will skip school in order to applaud Romain Bardet as it should. That Mr. Blanquer does not take offense: a country whose youth truant is a living country.
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I believe that many of us are waiting for the Tour to start. A few months ago the President of the Republic said that we were at war, at war against the Covid-19: confinement, deconfinement, masks, tests, clusters, deaths. Well, thanks to the Tour, we will forget this war for a while. We will forget it on the road
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