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1969
The first Tour de France took place in 1903.
I would imagine that to be the Tour de France, the first of the 3 Grand Tours, first run in 1903 Wax
The region of Touraine (the area around Tours in central-western France), is sometimes called le jardin de la France.
Martin of Tours was born in the year 316 at Upper Pannonia (in modern Hungary).
Francis de Miomandre was born on May 22, 1880, in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Jacques Anquetil won five tours. First in 1957 and then four times in a row from 1961 to 1964.
Paris, Tours, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Versailles, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Orleans, Vienne, Fort-de-France...
This device was first described and illustrated in France in 1363 by Guy de Chauliac.
Princess Helene de Mecklembourg introduced the first sapin de Noel in the year 1521.
Le tour de France
The Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France along with the Spanish Vuelta make uo what is known as the three grand Tours of cycle racing. But in order of popularity it would be the Tour De France followed by th Giro followed by the Vuelta. The Tour De France and Giro d'Italia do not directly compete.