By GEOFF HARE,Hugh Dauncey,Eugen Weber

This publication analyses the journey de France over its lengthy background either as France's so much prestigious and well-known carrying occasion and as a ecu and, more and more, a global biking pageant. This research offers interdisciplinary and sundry views at the carrying, cultural, social, fiscal and political value of the journey inside and out of doors France, giving a entire and authoritative research of up-to-the minute pondering on what the travel ability, now and some time past, to rivals, to France, to the French public, to the cultural historical past of recreation, and the game of biking itself.

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