Asked about his favorite occupation, Antoine Blondin invariably replied:
“Following the Tour de France.”
And to add:
“In July, I live in an automobile.
Car 101 is my summer residence.”
In 1978, in
Apostrophes
, the man of the pen confided to Bernard Pivot:
“The Tour is both my coat and my house.”
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The writer, entered, for
L'Équipe
, in the Tour de France in 1954 (the time of four stages quickly calling for a sequel), put the end point in 1982 after 524 chronicles, as many stages of a long history whose memories still clink glasses on the Grande Boucle, as his passages have marked, like Dino Buzzati on the Tour of Italy.
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