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The prints were found by the present owners of Château de Montigny, in Eure-et-Loir, northern France, as they went through all the books in their library, probably the first full audit in many generations.

In the Eure-et-Loir administrative department, which covers part of the Beauce plain that is one of France's biggest grain belts, local authorities on Wednesday ordered farmers to plough 10-metre-wide borders around fields to prevent fires spreading.

On Saturday, there was little elevation change as the race passed through the agriculturally rich Eure-et-Loir department.

The Eure, from which the department takes its name, rises in Orne, and flowing through Eure-et-Loir, falls into the Seine above Pont de l’Arche, after a course of 44 m. in the department.

The northern part of Eure-et-Loir is watered by the Eure, with its tributaries the V�gre, Blaise and Avre, a small western portion by the Huisne, and the south by the Loir with its tributaries the Conie and the Ozanne.