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CAs Lance Armstrong, too, a number of years in the past, walked on the Moon. That of biking mythology: Le Ventoux. But there’s a lot to wager that hoisting within the limestone stones, arc-bouted on his bicycle, the physique and the spirit in overheating, Alain Finkielkraut particularly summoned Petrarch and his Ascension of Mont Ventouxachieved seven centuries earlier than. A time when the Provence big climbed the trustworthy religion, whereas in Avignon, the popes argued the tiara as two canine a bone.
In his Parisian condominium, whereas the runners of the Tour de France procession on the tv display, the thinker hastened to minilize the feat of the Ventoux, insisting on a second of weak point which he nonetheless finds himself: “A stone’s throw from the summit, J …
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