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The Dane won the 22.4km stage 16 from Passy to Combloux in 32 minutes 36 seconds on a decisive day of the Tour.

Things quieted when I turned onto rue Lekain, where Passy’s residents were at one time laid to rest.

Missives were passed between households in the villages of Passy and Chaillot, tiny enclaves bordering Paris.

I started looking where she had lived, the villages of Passy and Chaillot.

I headed to the site of Passy’s 18th-century cemetery, along the narrow rue de l’Annonciation where a few of the one- and two-story elite homes of Abigail’s time still stand, painted now in muted pastels and secured by walls and gates.