The Tour de France's disguised visitors: "It's three weeks where I become a kid again, where I only see people happy to be there."

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The Tour de France isn't just about cycling. It's also about tens of thousands of people lining the roadsides every day, cheering, eating, singing, and dancing. And sometimes, dressing up. These costumes tell a story. In this episode, Rémy the parrot, a 28-year-old history and geography teacher whom he first encountered on the road to Dunkirk (Nord), talks about how the race "recharges him for the year."

“I've been following the Tour de France with my father since 2020, when he got a campervan. That year, we went to follow a stage in La Tour-d'Auvergne. For that first time, I had already dressed up: I dressed as Napoleon, with a bicorn hat and a French flag that acted like a cape. Since I wrote my history thesis on Napoleon, it was a nod.

“We had such a blast that we started again. And we decided to dress up all the time by the side of the road. My father and I went to a costume shop in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) and got the same outfit. When it came to choosing, we ruled out the ones that already existed: the devil of course, but also clowns or Getafix or Obelix, who you see a lot on the T