Tour de France: “We know what we owe to Raymond”… in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, discreet tribute to Poulidor

2023-07-08 20:20:39

This route will never be signposted like the last kilometers of a Tour stage. In Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne), the grave of Raymond Poulidor, who died on November 13, 2019, is like his yellow jersey: a legend. In front of the town’s small cemetery, the caretaker has become accustomed to seeing lost curious people wandering between the tombstones in search of the burial of the one who entered the dictionary with a double syllable filled with tenderness, “Poupou”. .