Seeing the end of the Tour in Paris?

[aclivity]

By happy chance I will be in Paris next Sunday, so I'm thinking of going to see the end of the Tour (to cross one of the things off my bucket list). However I am spectacularly unprepared for it. I am not even sure what time of the day the riders will be coming up the champs! I'm guessing there will be huge crowds at the line, so I'm fairly OK with just seeing them on the last few hundred yards.

Is there any handy guide available online that I can use, or does anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance.

[K50 DEL]

There's some information on the official site

http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/COURSE/fr/GuideTouri...

but I can't find anything about the timings I'm afraid.

[dubbs]

Enjoy!!! And don't forget to cheer on Cav for the win (assuming he survives the alps)

[Highway Star]

You'll be lucky to get anywhere near the line, evening if you turn up very early in the morning.

The final stage is a short one, starting just outside Paris and then into the centre for a series of laps around a circuit up the Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe, back down to the Place de la Concorde, down to near the Louvre, under the Jardin de Tuileries, back past the fairground to the Concorde and up the Champs Elysees again. They do the circuit a number of times (8?/12?).

To stand a better chance of seeing some action, I would head down towards the Louvre, you won't see the finish, but you might see something!

[Johno]

We'll be there as well, slightly easier as we now live here

Le Tour normally has a timetable for each stage detailing roll out times and forecast timings for each point along the stage.

We're heading for Louvre/place de concorde as Champs will be impossible. The start is reachable by metro as well, so you can see more than one section if you get organised.