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Riders get their first real taste of climbing this year in Saturday's seventh stage, a 102. 8-mile trek from Tournus to Station des Rousses with six low - to mid-grade ascents in the Jura range.
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For reply, he received orders, by a courier, to quit Rome immediately and to retire to Cluni or to Tournus, at his choice, until further orders.
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At Tournus, we took in a host of additional passengers, not so polished, but unobtrusive and well-behaved.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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As such he was present (1115) at a synod of Tournus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Tournus and the great Abbey of Cluny, to which 2,000 monasteries were subject, and which gave to the Church the great pope, Gregory VII
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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These disadvantages, so far as structural stability and fenestration are concerned, might indeed be overcome by adopting the system of a succession of transverse barrel-vaults, such as are seen in the unique instance of the church of St-Philibert at Tournus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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French painter, b. at Tournus in Ardeche, 21 August, 1725; d. at
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Bacchus is everywhere, but if he has special sites to be ringed in and kept sacred, I say let these be Brule, and the silent vineyard that lies under the square wood by Tournus, the hollow underplace of Heltz le Maurupt, and this town of Porrentruy.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Mohammedan came within three days 'march of Tours, the Mongol was seen from the walls of Tournus on the Sâone: right in France.
Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911
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After a week of worry and irritation the boat was launched, and the two boys having joined their father on board, they went together as far as Tournus, after spending the first night at Port d'Ouroux, where they had found a nice little inn, with simple but good accommodation.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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