[5] On stage 11, Raymond Impanis was the first of the field to pass a point by Desgrange's final residence, the "Villa Mia" in Beauvallon, Grimaud, on the French Riviera.

[6][7] In the first stage of the 1948 Tour, the prize was earned by Roger Lambrecht in the opening few kilometres at the summit of the Côte de Picardie climb in Versailles, Paris.

[15] In 1949, a monument to Desgrange was built 150 m (492 ft) from the southern entrance of the summit tunnel atop the Col du Galibier in the Alps, his favourite and one of the Tour's most iconic climbs.

[18] Beginning in 1952,[19] the marking point for the prize took place by the monument for the subsequent times the Tour visited the Galibier.

[20][21] Bypassing the tunnel, the road was then extended a further kilometre up to the natural crest of the pass,[22] increasing the elevation of the summit by 86 meters to 2,642 m (8,668 ft).

[19] Stage 11 of the 1978 race saw the award given to Christian Seznec at the legendary village of Sainte-Marie de Campan in the valley between the Col du Tourmalet and Col d'Aspin in the Pyrenees,[28] made famous when in the 1913 Tour, per the rules, Eugène Christophe was forced walk 14 km (9 mi) down the Tourmalet carrying his bicycle broken before repairing it at a forge in Campan.

[31] The replacement banner was strung up in the Landes forest 42 km (26 mi) before the end of stage 7 in Bordeaux,[32][33] which was won unexpectedly by Theo de Rooij as a result of him being at the front of the leading breakaway group.