“It’s not every day that the Tour passes by us”: the Seine-et-Marnais have reconnected with the Grande Boucle

There is a kind of tension at midday around the castle of Blandy-les-Tours. The town in the south of the department is preparing to see a Tour de France peloton pass through its streets for the first time in its history. And not just any since these are the 144 runners participating in the women’s version of the Grande Boucle. Reinstated this year by the organizers, 22 years after its last edition, its second stage linked Meaux to Provins after a journey of 135 km through Seine-et-Marne.