Fontenay

Annoyingly this kicks off at 3pm – right towards the end of today's opening stage from Noirmoutier-en-l'Île to Fontenay-le-Comte – so I won't be able to follow that.

The defending champion was squeezed out on a bend a little over five kilometres from the end of the 201km stage to Fontenay-le-Comte, which was won by Tour debutant Fernando Gaviria in a reduced sprint.

American Modernism Mid 20th century Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void); Photomontage by Shunk Kender of a performance by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960.

The architecture of Fontenay has been described as "an excellent illustration of the ideal of self-sufficiency" practised by the earliest Cistercian communities.