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    The Great St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Grand St-Bernard, Italian: Colle del Gran San Bernardo, German: Grosser Sankt Bernhard; Romansh: Pass del Grond...
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    Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass or Bonaparte Crossing the Alps; listed as Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand Saint-Bernard) is a series...
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  • region (Col du) Grand Saint-Bernard, French name for Great St Bernard Pass, road pass in south-western Switzerland, to Italy Great St Bernard Tunnel,...
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    Bourg-St-Pierre. R116: From Bourg-St-Pierre to Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard. R117: From Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard to Cérellaz. R118: From Cérellaz to Valgrisenche...
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    Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder...
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  • meters. Col du Grand Saint-Bernard 2465 5 1 2009 2009 [14] Col du Granon 2413 2 2 1986 2022 [15] Hautacam 1560 5 5 1994 2022 [16] Col de l'Iseran 2770 6...
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    col ou cime de la Bonette ou col de Restefond dans le Tour de France" (in French). ledicodutour. Retrieved 8 August 2022. "Cols du Télégraphe et du Galibier...
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    elevation in the race was 2,470 m (8,100 ft) at the summit of the Col du Grand Saint-Bernard mountain pass on stage 16. The race started in Monaco with a 15...
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    Cols and a long descent to the village of La Fouly. Day 3: Up the Val Ferret and over to Grand St. Bernard Hospice. Day 4: Down to Great St Bernard Pass...
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  • maître des requêtes, conseiller du roi and Grand Croix and Master of Ceremonies of the Order of Saint-Louis. In 1715 Bernard married Elisabeth-Olive-Louise...
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    (78 mph) Geneva 103.7 km/h (64.4 mph) Alençon 166 km/h (103 mph) Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard 178.6 km/h (111.0 mph) Rouen 140 km/h (87 mph) Évolène 124.6 km/h...
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    the Col du Galibier or Col de la Chartreuse – are regularly addressed in the Dauphiné. Five riders, Nello Lauredi, Luis Ocaña, Charly Mottet, Bernard Hinault...
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    Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic and the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré stage race in 1977. In 1978, he won his first two Grand Tours: the Vuelta a España and the Tour...
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    include : Col de la Charmette Col de la Cluse Col du Coq Col du Cucheron Col du Granier Col de Porte Col de Palaquit Col de Vence Col de la Placette Col de l'Alpe...
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    must travel 100 kilometres (62 mi) via the col de Rousset or journey 70 kilometres (43 mi) via Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte in the north. The villages at...
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    (6,939 ft) Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees. Not satisfied with that height, Desgrange the following year introduced his favoured Col du Galibier in...
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  • Among the passes most often crossed, Col du Tourmalet, Col d'Aubisque, Col d'Aspin, Col de Peyresourde and Col du Galibier predominate, while the highest...
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    The Col du Ballon d'Alsace (1,178 m (3,865 ft)) is a mountain pass situated close to the summit of the Ballon d'Alsace (1,247 m (4,091 ft)) in the Vosges...
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    Pichard Sardet, Grand-Saint-Bernard, col du in Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, February 23, 2009, "col du Grand-Saint-Bernard archive" in Dictionnaire...
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    the Sorbonne to its west, across rue Saint-Jacques; the Collège de France to its north, across rue du Cimetière-Saint-Benoist [fr]; the Panthéon campus of...
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    and Paris. The Hospice du Simplon, at the top of the pass, is owned by the Congregation of Canons Regular at Grand-Saint-Bernard. During the Second World...
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    who were there will be slow to forget Bernard Thévenet's six successive attacks in the never-ending climb of the col des Champs, Eddy Merckx's immediate...
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    goes up to the Col de Voza (1,653 m) to reach Les Contamines (1,150 m), which is the first life base. It then climbs to the Croix du Bonhomme (2,479...
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    Texier de La Boëssière's in Rue Saint-Honoré across from the Oratoire du Louvre, practising horse riding in the Salle du Manège. According to Antoine la...
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    Courmayeur, as does the higher mountain route from Bourg-Saint-Maurice via the Col du Petit St. Bernard (2,188 m (7,178 ft)). The French and Swiss sides of...
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  • Balès Col du Ballon d'Alsace Plateau de Beille Little St Bernard Pass Col du Berthiand Col de la Bonette Col du Bonhomme Mont Cenis Chamrousse Col des Chevrères...
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    The Mont Blanc Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Mont-Blanc, Italian: Traforo del Monte Bianco) is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under Mont Blanc...
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  • of the Pitons, Grand Salève and Petit Salève; it culminates at 1,379 metres at the Grand Piton. It is accessible via the Téléphérique du Salève, a cable...
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    background View to a street: Place du Marché-rue Saint-Gregoire-Grand Rue with townhall View to a street: Rue du 9e Zouaves Communes of the Haut-Rhin...
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    Bourg-Saint-Maurice, 160 km The return to racing after the second rest day featured two long climbs and their descents: the Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard, the...
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