The Tour de France is so very French. It’s a fantastic spectacle of top-tier athletic competition combined with beautiful French scenery.In quintessential French style, the riders will race past families picnicking on the roadside with baguettes and cheese, as older men with glasses of burgundy toast them from nearby tavern steps.At least once a year, the race peloton will be stopped temporarily midrace for French laborers on strike, trains at a crossing or cows moseying across the road looking for better pasture …