A Brief History of the Tour de France, Episode 394
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Elyse Rivin of Toulouse Guided Walks tells us about the birth of the bicycle and of the Tour de France. The first the Tour de France in 1903 started small but hasn't stopped growing ever since. Why do we love bicycles so much anyway? Most French people worked in agriculture then and it's a fact that bicycles gave young men much freedom. Some people feared what young women might do if they had the freedom a bicycle afforded them!
In this episode we wonder who wore the first yellow jersey and why? Where's a great place to watch the Tour go by in Paris? What's the publicity caravan all about? Why is the tour so popular today? Click play and get ready for a fantastic Tour starting July 1, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | The This is, join us in France, episode 394, 3rd 24th-Cator. |
| 0:17.0 | Bonsieur, I'm Annie Sergeant. 24tho-24th-24th. |
| 0:23.0 | Bonjour, I'm Annie Sergeant and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:29.0 | Everyday life in France, great places to visit in France, French culture, history, gastronomy, and news related |
| 0:37.1 | to travel to France. |
| 0:38.9 | Today I bring you a conversation with Elise Riven of Toulouse Guided Walks about the Tour de France, which is set to start very shortly on July 1st, 2022. |
| 0:51.0 | We discuss the history of this amazing event and tips for those of you who would like to see it in person and why we love watching it on TV really because you can't beat the landscape. I'll also answer a question about keeping |
| 1:06.2 | your stuff safe while traveling to France and for my personal update I will talk about the adventures that we had when stranded on the side of the road by car trouble and it could happen to you too, but hopefully it won't. |
| 1:23.2 | This podcast is supported by donors and listeners |
| 1:25.9 | who buy my tours and services, |
| 1:27.8 | including my itinerary consult service |
| 1:30.9 | and my GPS self-guided tours of Paris on the voice map app and you can |
| 1:36.2 | browse all of that at my boutique join us in France.com for a slash boutique. I emailed everyone who is subscribed to the newsletter to ask if |
| 1:46.2 | they are interested in the French Immersion Week. It's also going to be a |
| 1:50.8 | join us in France reunion, a France boot camp I'm not sure what name |
| 1:55.6 | will stick lots and lots of you are indeed interested I think it's going to be a |
| 2:00.9 | good-sized group I haven't gone through all of the responses as I record this, but I hope to do it over the weekend. |
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| 2:19.0 | Save the date and shoot me and email Annie at join us in France.com. |
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