Monday's stage takes the riders from Vise to Tournai over 207.5km and is expected to favor sprinters such as Britain's Mark Cavendish, who has won 20 stages of the Tour de France.

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In this regard, Braque likely knew of the iconographical use of a skull in an extraordinary 15th-century altarpiece panel picture in the Louvre, painted by the Netherlandish master Rogier van der Weyden and named the "Braque Triptych" for the work's patron, one Jehan Braque of Tournai.

WSJ: Vanitas I | Georges Braque | Denying Death | Masterpiece by E.A. Carmean Jr.