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Le Tour de Paris

It was at Le Bourget, Paris, in 2015, that an agreed route was mapped out to take us from our Carbon Dependancy to a Sustainable Future.

From Saint-Denis via Le Bourget & around Paris. 25 miles showcasing the Pre-Industrial past, today’s Carbon Fuelled world, some pointers to a Sustainable Future.

  • Depart Saint-Denis 08:00
  • Gare St. Lazare 13:00
    • TNO #3117 to Rouen 13:40-14:59
  • Overnight Rouen
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Pre-Industrial
Basilica of Saint Denis. Rebuilt 1144. Destination for pilgrims, burial place of many kings of France.
Stagecoach Terminus.
Rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris
(Louis Leopold Boilly)
Notre Dame, Paris.
Built 1163-1260.
Spire height 96m.
Limestone, marble & wood
Arc de Triomphe. (1806-36). Napoleon’s 50m high commemorative arch
Moulin Radet (Paris, 1717) Flour mill, harvest pressing, grinding. Re-built on the site of Moulin de la Galette.
Carbon Fuelled
Eiffel Tower, Paris.
Built 1887-9.
Height 330m.
Prefabricated wrought iron
Gare St.Lazare
(1837, rebuilt 1889)
Trains to Rouen, Le Havre (Monet 1877)
A Sustainable Future.

In the 1970s France generated about half of its electricity from fossil fuels. Since the 1973 Oil Crisis it has switched to nuclear (70%) and hydro electricity (12%). Coal, oil & gas now account for only 4%

Louvre pyramid.
Built 1984-9
Height 21.6 m
673 steel-framed glass panels
Gare St.Lazare
1960s.
French rail electrified
LEADERSHIP
COP 21 Venue
Le Bourget conference centre, Paris.
Climate Change Agreement finalised 12/12/15.
175 Signatories 22/4/2016.
Now 194 – Iran,Libya,Yemen declined.
USA withdrew 2nd. time 20/1/2026.
Palais Bourbon. French National Assembly.
Built 1722-1728, façade added 1806.

Around Paris

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RETURN: ROUEN TO DIEPPE 68 KM/ 42 MILES

Rouen to Dieppe 42 miles

  • Cleon EV motor factory
  • Anquetil’s grave, Quincampoix
  • Dieppe 42 miles
  • or TER 851725 to Dieppe 16:08-16:57 
  • Return ferry DFDS check in closes 18:16 arr. Newhaven 22:30
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Sustainable TRAVEL
Cléon Renault EV power  factory near Rouen. Engine and gearbox production site undergoing a major  transformation into a hub for electric motor production


Wherever there’s a mode of transport, mankind will use it in competition. Jaques Anquetil was the dominant cycle racing athlete in the age of steel bikes 1959-64