Tour de France 2025: the garbure lady, Macron's shepherd friend and the real-fake tyrant of the peloton

From the foot, we could see the clouds covering the shoulders of the Tourmalet. This pass spreads out its harshness and, from the threshold of its 19 kilometers (7.4% average gradient), it seemed peaceful. The white shroud gave it a winter air. It was here that the breakaway of this stage between Pau and Luchon-Superbagnères took shape, led by Lenny Martinez, Sepp Kuss, Thymen Arensman and, shortly after, Valentin Paret-Peintre. It was also at this point that Christine Diez took out her wooden chair. Usually, she carries with her the scent of broth but today that the peloton passes here, in Luz-Saint-Sauveur (km 70), she wants to experience the Tour as it was back then, when her father, a refugee from Spain, encouraged the young climber Federico Bahamontes . Christine is the lady of garbure , the local soup, turnips, carrots, potatoes, Tarbais beans and pieces of ham, the heel or the bone.

Sometimes people come in his establishment, in Luz and customs, and cry. "D