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Brest › Landerneau

7 This will be the seventh time that Brittany has hosted a grand depart

32 Brest has now featured in 32 editions of the Tour de France

7 The Tour has begun with a road stage seven times in the last decade

According to the 17th century French author François Savinien d’Alquié,, a guide to the regions of his country, the people of Brest were “gentle, frank and love an easy life”.

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