Spécial Montmartre/Tour de France Photo Gallery: Our man with a camera – John Thomson – had to be in Paris, more precisely the Montmartre, for the very special final stage of the 2025 Tour de France with all the excitement of wet cobbles. Here is his unique take on the last stage of the big French stage race.
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John Thomson: This is my “Montmartre Tour de France” photo gallery. It includes shots from the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France on La Butte Montmartre. Also Tour abandons, a few scans from my magazine collection, famous Montmartre artists and Bunuelian icon Catherine Deneuve.
Tadej Pogačar honored the yellow jersey and Wout had a magnificent solo victory in an epic Montmartre stage
Great to see Thibau Nys finishing his first Tour de France
I had to buy this magazine at the Paris airport. Classic Ocaña, Merckx and Poulidor climbing Mont Ventoux in the 1972 Tour. Photo: Club Sports/Presse Sports
Matej Mohorič was in the final group of six on the last time up La Butte Montmartre for a fine podium finish
Fans packed the streets of Montmartre
Ferdinand Kübler won the 1950 Tour with Louison Bobet in third place. The start of the race was given on July 13 by Orson Welles
The Great One now has four Tour de France titles and will take a well deserved break before coming to Canada in September
Eddy Merckx won the general classification, the points classification and the mountains classification at the 1969 Tour de France. Photo: L’Équipe/Cyclisme
Jonathan Milan won the points classification and rode into Paris on his gorgeous Trek Madone SLR Project One treated in metallic chrome green
Obligatory food shot in Paris
Matteo Trentin wasn’t a fan of Montmartre on the final stage, but still had a great ride to be in the final group of six
Arnaud De Lie gave it a good kick going up La Butte Montmartre
“Terrace of a Cafe on Montmartre” (1886) by Vincent van Gogh at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Vincent van Gogh lived with his art dealer brother Theo from 1886 to 1888 at 54 Rue Lepic in Montmartre, right on the race course
Nobody can say they don’t deserve a celebratory drink. Harry Sweeny and Ben Healy both had epic Tours de France
Best but one. Jonas put up a great battle at the Tour de France
There was no traditional caravan of vehicles throwing out freebies in Montmartre, but plenty of free E. Leclerc hats and shirts. I myself have one hat and three shirts
Wout won the beautiful classics-style Paris stage in the rainy conditions
His cross skills didn’t hurt either. Wout at Gavere in 2023
“The Dance Class” (1874) by Edgar Degas. Companion work at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Tomb of Edgar Degas at the Cimetière de Montmartre. Degas once stated “A picture is something that requires as much trickery, malice and vice as the perpetration of a crime.”
Arnaud Démare enjoying the fans’ appreciation
Belgian champion Tim Wellens had a top supporting Tour for Pogi and a brilliant solo win on stage 15 into Carcassonne
Epic! Photo: Stéphane Mantey/L’Équipe
Julian Alaphilippe gave the fans the attack they asked for
Rue Lepic. Photo: Alexis Réau/L’Équipe
Brutal crashes for Mikel Landa in the Giro and João Almeida in the Tour. Here at Isola 2000 in the 2024 TDF
It must be satisfying for Primož Roglič to ride into Paris to complete the 2025 Tour de France
Le Poulbot restaurant in beautiful Montmartre at 4 am
Emiel Verstrynge completing his debut Tour de France
Emiel doing cross at Gavere in 2023
Top photog James Startt has shot many many Tours de France
Jasper Stuyven is moving on to the Soudal Quick-Step classics team
Youngest rider in the race, Spanish champion Iván Romeo, here with Magnus Cort
More security than at the Olympics
Brit Jake Stewart and Canadian Guillaume Boivin in the Montmartre rain
Riders on rue Lepic with the Radet Windmill in the background
Valentin Paret-Peintre was the top Frenchman with his big win on Mont Ventoux
Skiing down the cobbles
Davide Ballerini got 2nd to Wout on the Champs-Élysées
“La Maison Bernot” (1924) in Montmartre by Maurice Utrillo(1883-1955) at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Musée de Montmartre
Brutal crashes and abandons for Bissegger and Ganna on stage one. Here pictured at Roubaix and Flanders of this year
Amazing highs and brutal lows for Jasper Philipsen at the Tour. Here pictured riding the Nice tt at the 2024 TDF
Mathieu was very much missed in Montmartre
And so was Remco
“Dance at the Moulin-Rouge” (1895) (left panel) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
A victory in the time trial, a small rib fracture, a bit of sickness and a tough abandon on stage 14 for Remco Evenepoel. Photo: screenshot/FloBikes
Remco riding the Nice tt recon in 2024 for his best Tour yet. And as of this writing, not yet announced that he is going to a new team
“Olympia” (1863) by Édouard Manet at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Manet was a notable figure in the Montmartre art scene
Iván Cortina Garcia with Geraint Thomas who was in his last Tour de France after an amazing 19 year pro career!
Top Frenchman Kévin Vauquelin finished 7th in Paris then fractured his ankle in a home mishap after the Tour. Here pictured at the Nice tt in the 2024 TDF
Matteo Jorgenson battled a bit of sickness like many riders, but had an epic ride in Paris for Wout
Top color commentator Hannah Walker taking in the festive atmosphere on La Butte Montmartre
Edward Theuns and Simone Consonni doing the wave for the fans on La Butte Montmartre
This Wout fan went to great lengths to grab a Visma bidon
Grabbing the prized bidon
And the fan helping her is still holding on to his cigarette!
Catherine Deneuve in Luis Buñuel’s surreal masterpiece “Belle de Jour” (1967) on the flight over
The movie apartment of Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) and her husband in “Belle de Jour” is 23 rue de Messine, Paris
Pogi was pure class in yellow and a bit of rain on the cobbles is not always a bad thing for a photographer
62 – Montmartre threw a party and everybody came!
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