The Eure-et-Loir Department has hosted the start of Paris-Tours since 2009. After Chartres last year, Albéric de Montgolfier, President of the Eure-et-Loir Departmental Council and Christian Prudhomme, Director of cycling at A.S.O., made the official announcement that the start of the 110th edition will take place in Dreux on October, 9th.

One week before the World Championships in Qatar, the end of season classic will offer a terrain ideally suited to those riders who will aim for the rainbow jersey, with the flat roads of the Beauce region, often wind swept in the Fall and a royal finish on the avenue de Grammont.

As the curtain raiser to their elders, the under 23 riders will set off fromBonneval for the 74th edition of Paris-Tours Espoirs.