Touring - Tour DeFrance tour?

My New Zealand tour in December has been aborted, new teaching job, will have to focus on the summer trip. Anyway, wouldn't it be neat to do a best of the Tour DeFrance tour? Pick out the best stages from the Tours of yester-year, link them all together, and you've got yourself a nice month long tour. Can anyone recommend some books or websites that would help with route research? Thanks for the help.
PS> This would be a self-supported tour.

Not really I'm afraid, but someone published a funny novel last year about his riding the tour. I can't remember what it's called, but if you search amazon it'll defo be on there. might not be technically massively helpful, but am sure will give u an idea of the route, and which bits are interesting or not...

http://home.planet.nl/~honderd.cols/
might have some info about the cols.:D
heavy stuff though!

good luck!

You can find detailed route descriptions for the last three tours from the Tour's homepage (http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html).

Another great source for information about the Alps is Virtual Alps (http://www.cycling.uk.net/alps/). It was a great help when planning the tour through the Alps I did with a friend last year.

/Csson

Thanks for the info. I am reading that book one of you mentioned it is called, French Revolutions, by Tim Moore...it is quite funny and a contributing factor to my tour idea. I highly recommend the book and the author is English as well. Thanks again. Zach