The most difficult part of this stage is its length. Stage 7 is the longest this year with 231km.
Leaving Brittany from Fougères, the home of former yellow jersey Georges Groussard (nine days in 1964), former Tour de France technical director Albert Bouvet and current Fortuneo-Samsic team manager Emmanuel Hubert, the race visits the cycling mad provinces of Mayenne and Sarthe throughout the undulated "Alpes mancelles" at half way into Chartres and its famous cathedral.
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