The champagne at Troyes, the traditional capital of the champagne country, has more ambrosial taste somehow than it has at a sidewalk cafe on the Rue de la Paix or at Tour D'Argent.

There was the Arc de Triomphe and the Tour d'Eiffel -- I was no yokel, but I was young, and this was Paris!!

* Racing: track racing, criterium, roller racing and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour of California, Giro d ' Italia, the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España, the Volta a Portugal, among others.

Georges de La Tour, Job Mocked by his Wife.

The most famous of all bicycle races is the Tour de France.

They range from the one-day road race, criterium, and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour de France and its sister events which make up cycling's Grand Tours.

For example, the Union Cycliste Internationale, the governing body of international cycle sport ( which sanctions races such as the Tour de France ), decided in the late 1990s to create additional rules which prohibit racing bicycles weighing less than 6. 8 kilograms ( 14. 96 pounds ).

Priit Narusk in the qualification for the Tour de Ski in Prague.

The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.

The term dolmen originates from the expression taol maen, which means " stone table " in Breton, and was first used archaeologically in Théophile Corret de la Tour d ' Auvergne's Origines gauloises.

File: Hotel de Ville Geneva. jpg | Hôtel de Ville and the Tour Baudet

France was served by some very efficient commanders such as Louis II de Bourbon ( Condé ) and Henry de la Tour d ' Auvergne ( Turenne ).

Louis II de Bourbon joined the Spanish army this time, but suffered a severe defeat at Dunkirk ( 1658 ) by Henry de la Tour d ' Auvergne.

A Condor Ferries catamaran heading west around Jersey past La Tour de Vinde, Noirmont, Saint Brelade

* Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel and Portraits-Souvenir, La Voix de l ' Auteur LVA 13

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

* 1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.

* 1986 – Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.

* 2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.

: 1st, Stage 2, Tour de Romandie

: Tour de Romandie

* The Tour de Romandie

* Tour de Romandie

: 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie

* Tour de Romandie ( 1991, 1995 )

: 1st Overall Tour de Romandie

: 3rd overall Tour de Romandie

: 3rd overall Tour de Romandie

: Tour de Romandie

The expression " Suisse romande " or " Romandie " is best known in the English-speaking world through institutions such as the Geneva-based Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the annual stage race Tour de Romandie.

: 1st overall, Tour de Romandie

: 1st, prologue, Tour de Romandie

: 1st, stage 2, Tour de Romandie

: 1st, prologue, Tour de Romandie

: 2nd overall, Tour de Romandie

: 2nd, Stage 3, Tour de Romandie

: Tour de Romandie ( stage 4 win )

: Tour de Romandie

In 1998, Casagrande tested positive for doping during the Tour de Romandie, and consequently was fired by his team Cofidis.

* Won stage 3 of the 1988 Tour de Romandie

: 1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie, Igor Antón

: 1st Stage 5 Tour de Romandie, Igor Antón

: 1st Prologue Tour de Romandie, Jonathan Castroviejo