Stages
| Stage | Date | Route | Terrain | Length | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 July | Metz – Reims | Plain stage | 185 km (115 mi) | Giovanni Rossi (ITA) |
| 2 | 5 July | Reims – Ghent | Plain stage | 228 km (142 mi) | Jean Diederich (LUX) |
| 3 | 6 July | Ghent – Le Tréport | Plain stage | 219 km (136 mi) | Georges Meunier (FRA) |
| 4 | 7 July | Le Tréport – Paris | Plain stage | 188 km (117 mi) | Roger Lévêque (FRA) |
| 5 | 8 July | Paris – Caen | Plain stage | 215 km (134 mi) | Serafino Biagioni (ITA) |
| 6 | 9 July | Caen – Rennes | Plain stage | 182 km (113 mi) | Édouard Muller (FRA) |
| 7 | 10 July | La Guerche – Angers | Individual time trial | 85 km (53 mi) | Hugo Koblet (SUI) |
| 8 | 11 July | Angers – Limoges | Plain stage | 241 km (150 mi) | André Rosseel (BEL) |
| 9 | 13 July | Limoges – Clermont-Ferrand | Stage with mountain(s) | 236 km (147 mi) | Raphaël Géminiani (FRA) |
| 10 | 14 July | Clermont-Ferrand – Brive | Stage with mountain(s) | 216 km (134 mi) | Bernardo Ruiz (ESP) |
| 11 | 15 July | Brive – Agen | Plain stage | 177 km (110 mi) | Hugo Koblet (SUI) |
| 12 | 16 July | Agen – Dax | Plain stage | 185 km (115 mi) | Wim van Est (NED) |
| 13 | 17 July | Dax – Tarbes | Stage with mountain(s) | 201 km (125 mi) | Serafino Biagioni (ITA) |
| 14 | 18 July | Tarbes – Luchon | Stage with mountain(s) | 142 km (88 mi) | Hugo Koblet (SUI) |
| 15 | 19 July | Luchon – Carcassonne | Stage with mountain(s) | 213 km (132 mi) | André Rosseel (BEL) |
| 16 | 20 July | Carcassonne – Montpellier | Plain stage | 192 km (119 mi) | Hugo Koblet (SUI) |
| 17 | 22 July | Montpellier – Avignon | Stage with mountain(s) | 224 km (139 mi) | Louison Bobet (FRA) |
| 18 | 23 July | Avignon – Marseille | Plain stage | 173 km (107 mi) | Fiorenzo Magni (ITA) |
| 19 | 24 July | Marseille – Gap | Stage with mountain(s) | 208 km (129 mi) | Armand Baeyens (BEL) |
| 20 | 25 July | Gap – Briançon | Stage with mountain(s) | 165 km (103 mi) | Fausto Coppi (ITA) |
| 21 | 26 July | Briançon – Aix-les-Bains | Stage with mountain(s) | 201 km (125 mi) | Bernardo Ruiz (ESP) |
| 22 | 27 July | Aix-les-Bains – Geneva | Individual time trial | 97 km (60 mi) | Hugo Koblet (SUI) |
| 23 | 28 July | Geneva – Dijon | Stage with mountain(s) | 197 km (122 mi) | Germain Derijcke (BEL) |
| 24 | 29 July | Dijon – Paris | Plain stage | 322 km (200 mi) | Adolphe Deledda (FRA) |
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“Whoe’er has travelled life’s dull round,
Where’er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.”
—William Shenstone (1714–1763)
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery....Child’s play is the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experience by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning.”
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