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    SKIRMISH IN THE VOSGES

    Aug 06, 2020 2 minutes
    Words Simon Warren
     
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    Yuzuru Sunada, Getty

    Ballon d’Alsace

    ack in 1905, before the Tour de France had ventured across the high passes of the Pyrenees and Alps, and in its third running, its mastermind Henri Desgrange chose the Ballon d’Alsace in the Vosges as the first genuine mountain of the race. Until this point, its highest peak

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