Assertion: tour de france | /r/CapableOf | act as avant-gardiste
Facets:
value: by the cartography of france
type: OTHER
value: in showing a map
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: By the cartography of France that it helped make known, the Tour acted as a teacher in showing a map printed with the contours of the country - which was rare at least until the Great War - and as avant-gardiste in very quickly popularising the notion of France as more or less hexagonal, a France amputated from 1903 not only of its "lost provinces" [n 5] but also of possessions overseas and of Corsica, (which the race has) never visited in a century nor figured on maps of the race.