During his Formula One career, he had only won one race: the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in. Peter was 35 years old at the time of death. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. It was something he was good at. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Franois Cevert is buried in the Cimetire de Vaudelnay in the village of Vaudelnay, Maine-et-Loire. Cause of the accident analysed by Stewart When practice resumed, Stewart went out on the track in his car on a personal fact-finding mission. He had a temper. Over the next four seasons, Cevert became the veteran Stewart's devoted protg. Thanks for your help! In this case of third gear, percentage for gear is low, and the change of the wheel axis(impact) reaches engine directly. His car hit the barriers hard enough to break them, and Cevert himself was cut in half. In the meantime, Stewarts sons followed the session back home on TV believing their father had lost his life. When he was 16, Franois Cevert began his motorsport career on two wheels, rather than four, initially racing his mother's Vespa scooter against friends, before graduating to his own Norton at the age of 19. Something about those charming blue eyes, the fond way hes remembered, and the tragedy of wasted potential had me hooked from the very first time I heard his story. I couldnt ignore them. 'He took a lot of risks, and the way he drove could hurt the car. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? Another accident occurred at the same circuit a year later in the 1974 USA Grand Prix when another young Formula One driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died when his car went straight into the barrier at turn 7. Francois Cevert driving the Tyrrell lost his life. I thought, life should not carry on in a way.. Formula One motor racing driver Francois Cevert enjoys some time off with a girl friend at a ski resort in Villars Sur Ollan near Montreux,. He did all my education Jackie is still the maestro for me, Cevert said in an interview. He was so clearly dead he was just left in the car, telling you something about the attitude of the day. Francois died on 6 October 1973 during qualifying for the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York, USA. Ill be able to weave it into something beautiful. Jackie Stewart was one of the first on the scene of Cevert's accident and said later "They [the marshals] had left him [in the car], because he was so clearly dead." The nose of his Tyrrell wedged between two metal strips of the Armco. In the fast right-left uphill combination called "The Esses", Cevert's car was a little too far over towards the left side of the track, getting a bump from the kerbs. It could very well just be me ascribing meaning to tragedy again, trying to make sense of my own existence in a wider context, trying to give it a neat and tidy narrative to wrap things up. He earned his first World Championship point by finishing sixth in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. In the event, Cevert's death led to Scheckter becoming team leader, supported by Patrick Depailler, and he took the championship battle with Emerson Fittipaldi and Clay Regazzoni down to the last round, an incredible achievement in the circumstances and a sign of things to come for the 1979 world champion. He competed in 48 World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one win, 13 podium finishes and 89 career points. Gilles Villeneuve. The 2013 documentary 1: Life on the Limit documents Cervert's fatal accident in 1973. The young Frenchman was nicknamed Le Prince. More like this. Albert Franois Cevert Goldenberg (25 February 1944 - 6 October 1973) was a French racing driver who took part in the Formula One World Championship. Cevert, though, preferred third gear, at the top end of the engines rev range. In order not to draw the authorities' notice to his continuing presence in the heavily controlled capital, Charles and Huguette's four children were all registered with her surname rather than his. Franois Cevert was killed at the age of 29 during practice for the United States Grand Prix in 1973. And then, my junior year of high school, I saw Rush. Stewarts team-mate, the fast Frenchman Francois Cevert, had lost control of his Tyrrell on a flying lap. Top Gear America Sneak Peek: Dax Drives a McLaren 765LT, 'Grand Prix' Is the Best Racing Movie Nobody Talks About, Broadway Star Wendell Pierce Is a True Formula 1 Fan. Albert Franois Cevert Goldenberg (February 25, 1944, in Paris, France October 6, 1973, at Watkins Glen, New York) was a French racing driver who took part in the Formula One World Championship. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Sport Cars. It was the high point of his career, helping him take third place in the 1971 Drivers' Championship behind Stewart and Ronnie Peterson. Cevert was. This is how Scheckter recalled the scene: Half of the car was in the middle of the track, and I jumped out. Powder blue Armo fencing lined the strip of asphalt that ribboned through rural greenery. By that point, he had essentially been excommunicated from his family after his father refused to allow Franois to race while living under his roof. He did not only look like one, he was also born into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family running a jewelry business. On lap 43, Ickx set the fastest lap of the race, and the gap was down to 2.2 seconds. How I can change up my daily life in such a way that I feel slightly less shitty. His story is the kind I would love to write novels about. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Still to this day, Ceverts teammate-mentor-friend says he is affected by the unspeakable accident and struggles with his own remorse. At that time, the three-time champion was just as enthusiastic about passing his knowledge onto young drivers as about racing itself. Today 25 February would have been Franois Ceverts 79th birthday. Instead, he straightened himself out and concentrated his considerable talent and . In order to keep the family safe, Charles GoldenbergCeverts fatherencouraged the children to take their mothers traditionally French surname while he was fighting against the Nazis during their occupation of Paris. Contribute Who is Franois Cevert dating? Learn more about merges. Edit: Both crashes were at Watkins Glen, Cevert's being at turns 3 and 4 and Koinigg's being at turn 7. As Tyrrell began building their own cars in 1970, Stewart and team owner Ken Tyrrell decided to sign Cevert as a replacement for their other driver, Johnny Servoz-Gavin. Due to the bump, Cevert's car swerved too much to the right-hand side of the track, where it touched the track's safety barriers causing the car to spin and crash into the barriers on the other side of the track at a near 90 angle, uprooting and lifting the barrier. Suddenly, things made sense. Hes tall. Tragically, at Watkins Glen, with Stewart having already clinched his third World Championship, Cvert was killed during Saturday morning practice while battling for pole position with Ronnie Peterson. Failed to delete memorial. But knowing that doesnt change the fact that looking down that section of the track was enough to make my heart skip a beat and send chills down my spine. F1 Drivers. I planned a trip to Europe to see more races and started painting banners and flags for my favorite drivers. It seems they made an amalgamation of the two incidents. I loved weightlifting as much as advanced psychology. Short History of Road Racing at Watkins Glen, European Formula Two Championship drivers, File:1973-05-27 Francois Cevert, Matra-Simca 670.jpg, http://forix.autosport.com/8w/tyrrell73.html, http://www.forix.com/asp/notes.asp?z=0&k=0&l=0&i=3582&c=6, http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/wat.html, Atlas F1 Bulletin Board with 3 photographs of Cevert's grave at Vaudelnay, Third in the Formula 2 Championship (1969). All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Unless Jackie was around. Albert Franois Cevert Goldenberg was born on February 25, 1944 to a Russian Jewish father and a French mother. The sport that day was deprived from surely a future champion. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. Auto Race Car Driver. The Cevert family wasnt rich, but they were well-off and comfortable in their Parisian suburb home. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. When he was 16, Franois Cevert began his motorsport career on two wheels, rather than four, initially racing his mother's Vespa scooter against friends, before graduating to his own Norton at the age of 19. I think about it a lot. The roots seemed browner, more natural. Franois Cevert: WARNING Fatal crash pictures. But shed seen Logan before. Fittipaldi: Vasseur can do what Jean Todt did at Ferrari. Albert Franois Cevert Goldenberg ( 25. nora 1944 Pa - 6. jna 1973 Watkins Glen) byl francouzsk automobilov zvodnk a pilot Formule 1, kter tragicky zahynul pi Grand Prix USA 1973 . I started writing about it all. It has its own special kind of magic to it. In the wake of the tragedy, Stewart withdrew from Sundays race. Again, Formula One was overcast by a fatality and the grid would mourn one of the most promising drivers of the season. Soon, the Stewart-Cevert duo sharing the podium became a common sight. I went to the house in Neuilly-sur-Seine, to the apartment where Cevert had lived. By the last race of the year, Jackie Stewart had already secured his title victory and was getting ready to race his 100th Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Accidental deaths are also on the rise. Admittedly, his special connection to Cevert pushed him to focus more on life off the track. Try again later. It ended Cevert's meteoric rise . Cevert died instantly of massive injuries inflicted by the barrier. He was still in his car and obviously dead. His sisters boyfriend, Formula One driver Jean Pierre Beltoise, inspired the young Parisian boy to develop passion for the sport. Stewart immediately left the scene of the accident and returned to the pits. There was a problem getting your location. We want to feel like it was coming, that we could have predicted it, that we can now find meaning in it. From 2010 to 2014, the number of accident-related . Being a driver in lower categories was not a particularly well-paying job in those days. After winning the French Formula 3 Championship in 1968, Cvert joined the Tecno Formula 2 team and finished third overall in 1969, driving in the F2 class of the German Grand Prix. One thousand and seven hundred miles away from home, two thousand miles into a road trip, twenty years into my life, and somehow, finally, I had ended up on that particular grandstand at Watkins Glen. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. He finished second six times, three times behind Stewart, who acknowledged that at times the Frenchman had been a very "obedient" teammate. His conclusion was that his preference was to take The Esses complex in fourth gear in the Tyrrell, hence he would be at the low end of the engine's rev range, making the car more tractable and less nervous (in exchange for a bit less throttle response). In 1973, the Tyrrell team was back on top in Formula One and Cevert showed he was capable of running with Stewart at almost every race. They come back and light up so we remember them.. Family background [ edit] Cevert was the brother-in-law of Grand Prix driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise. It is going to be a human story from 1970, when Francois came into the team, until he sadly died.' If the film is scrapped, it leaves the path clear for a second production, Weekend Of A. After Id paid my $25 and promptly mounted the Red, White, and Blue grandstand, I couldnt get over how blue it was. In order not to draw further attention, Charles and Huguette's four children were all registered with her surname rather than his. Cevert died instantly of massive injuries inflicted by the barrier, which cut his body in half between his neck and hip. Stewart immediately left the scene of the accident and returned to the pits. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Death Race. Life carried on afterward, everybody behaved the same. She paid for Cevert to attend driving school, to compete in the Shell Racing Scholarship challenge, where Cevert proved himself to be a natural talent and won the car provided by the challenge. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. That crash was Helmuth Koinigg in 1974 (Team Surtees running the number 9) Whereas they show in the film Franois Cevert's Tyrell running the number 6 and with Elf sponsorship. In the endurance racing world, he finished second at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1971. Jackie didn't even participate in the race the following day leaving him at 99 GP starts. When he died at Watkins Glen, Francois Cevert was 29 years old. His parents considered racing to be a lazy sport. This made it swerve towards the right-hand side of the track, where it touched the track's signature powder blue safety barriers causing it to spin and crash into the barriers on the other side of the track at a near 90 angle, uprooting and lifting the barrier. Jackie Stewart, who just started a new lap when the accident happened, initially thought that the blue car in the barrier was of Chris Amon. Fighting the car as he went up the hill, he brushed the curb on the left, whipped across the track and hit the guardrail on the right. In 1973, the Tyrrell team was back on top in Formula One and Cevert showed he was capable of running with Stewart at almost every race. Hed been the first of my spirits that shed sensed. The way his life was cut short just before hed have had it all. Franois Cevert was in relationships with Brigitte Bardot (1973), Christina De Caraman-Chimay and Anne Van Malderen. During his Formula One career, he had only won one race: the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in 1971. They soon realized there was nothing to be done. Search above to list available cemeteries. That day, when we turned on the lights after the session, Karens eyes were filled with tears. A right-left chicane was added to the track, making Turn 3-4 much slower. I was, simultaneously, the kid at the top of my class who ate lunch at the teachers table and the degenerate that would show up to school in a leather dress and black lipstick. a racing school in Magny Cours. I found closer friendships than Id had with the people Id known since preschool. Posledn vtzstv. Cant wait to see you on Netflix, Norris: If Hamilton came to McLaren now he wouldnt win. Following the tragic accidents of Cevert and Koinigg, changes had to be made. Franois Cevert: A contract with death Hardcover - January 1, 1975 by Jean-Claude Halle (Author) 4 ratings Hardcover $499.92 4 Used from $381.48 Text: English, French (translation) Print length 213 pages Language English Publisher William Kimber and Co. Ltd. London, UK Publication date January 1, 1975 ISBN-10 0718300440 ISBN-13 978-0718300449 Colin Chapman was in complete disbelief. The two became fast friends, vacationing together, traveling together, racing in non-F1 events together. Cevert received the call while he was in the bath; for weeks, hed waited by his phone, desperate to hear if the rumor that hed be moving into F1 was true. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? I got home from that movie and immediately dove into the archives of the internet to see what else I could learn about these mad race car drivers from the 1970s. Please enter your email and password to sign in. It was as if he was holding off for something he knew to be inevitable. C'est en 1971 qu'il dcrocha sa premire, mais unique, victoire en Grand Prix. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. I had a singular purpose. Francois Cevert, there emerge two Mexicans who forged a path but their countrymen. And to this day, Im still affected by it. The Flying Scot said on Beyond the Grid. Jackie Stewart was one of the last on the scene of Cevert's accident and said later "They [the marshals] had left him [in the car], because he was so clearly dead." Failed to report flower. At Watkins Glen, with Stewart having already clinched his third World Championship, Cevert was killed during Saturday morning qualifying, while battling for pole position with Ronnie Peterson. Especially when it comes to a sudden, unexpected death, we want to find a sense of comfort. The things that could have been. Stewart trusted the French youngster as a driver but putting him in the car was also a 2 in 1 decision. As debris ascended and blocked the track, marshals were desperately waving yellow flags. Stewart gives an insight to Cervert outside of the sport, from his . He competed in 47 World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one win, 13 podium finishes and 89 career points. Even though he had won F3 in 1968 and finished third in F2, Cevert was not considered to be a God given talent prior to his entry into Formula One. Fran ois cevert the prince of formula one, Cause of the accident analysed by Stewart, Complete Formula One World Championship results, Third in the Formula 1 Drivers Championship 1971. 6, chassis number 006, engine number 66. To my right, turn one. Some years after the liberation of France, Cevert's father wanted to rename his children Goldenberg, but the family objected as by now they had become known as Cevert. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. The chicane was removed in 1985 after the track lost its Formula One race in 1981. No, Cevert didnt grow up worshipping racing drivers or aiming for Formula One. Formidable metal fencing with lush forests waiting just beyond. He competed in 48 World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one win, 13 podium finishes and 89 career points.Family backgroundCevert was the son of Charles Goldenberg (1901-1985), a Parisian jeweller, and Huguette Cevert. Aside from asking Ken Tyrrell for more money, and despite a fairly successful career in sports cars, Cevert had made no plans for 1974. In 1971, with the Tyrrell team now building their own cars, Cevert finished second in France and Germany, both times behind team leader Stewart. Weve updated the security on the site. Please try again later. Then, Id spent a year trying to write about the fireflies. Cause of the accident analysed by Stewart Grand Prix USA 1971. Fighting the car as he went up the hill, he brushed the curb on the left, whipped across the track and hit the guardrail on the right. Francois Cevert's Fatal Crash - Watkins Glen 1973 (44 Years Ago) Humphrey The Auto Racing Fan 1989 2.35K subscribers Subscribe 1.3K 277K views 5 years ago A crash that caused Tyrrell to. Verify and try again. Jackie Stewart was one of the first drivers to arrive at the scene of the accident and got out of his car and went over to see Cevert. She took me to her treatment room and laid me on the table for an hours worth of reiki treatment, a form of energy healing. Cevert, however, preferred to use third gear and be at the top end of his engine's power range: it was always something of a compromise because of the need to accelerate through the combination of corners. Now thats doing your business in luxury. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. A child who witnessed the 9/11 attacks later drew pictures of people leaping from the Twin Towers onto trampolines because that was how his brain had rationalized the tragedy. Charles was a . I asked for tickets to my first race during my freshman year of college, the 2014 United States Grand Prix. Many believed he had the potential to become the first French driver to ever win an F1 title. Franois Cevert est agora enterrado no Cemitrio Municipal de Vaudelnay, no Maine-en-Loire. Cvert became only the second Frenchman to win a Grand Prix (Maurice Trintignant won at Monaco in 1955 and 1958), and it was the high point of his career, helping him take third place in the 1971 Driver's Championship behind Stewart and Ickx. Franois Cevert girlfriend, wife list. As Cvert began to draw even with Stewart's driving abilities, the Scot was secretly planning to retire after the last race of the season in the United States. As a response to Cevert's and Koinigg's accidents, a chicane was added in 1975 in order to slow the cars through the "Esses". In the epidemiological framework of the Global Burden of Disease study each death has one specific cause. He finished second six times, three times behind Stewart, who acknowledged that at times the Frenchman had been a very "obedient" teammate. It was not my finest moment, but our relationship was already rocky, and part of me had decided that, if we were going to inevitably break up, I might as well speed things along. Hes been there for you this whole time, always out there somewhere, but today I saw him.. His father was a Russian-Jewish emigre who had been brought to France as a young boy by his parents, to escape the persecution of the Jews under the Tsarist autocracy. This is a carousel with slides. He died instantly. The bright-blue-eyed Prince won his first and only victory at the U.S. Grand Prix in 1971. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Autopedia is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. After winning the French Formula 3 Championship, Cevert joined the works Tecno Formula Two team in 1969, and finished third overall, as well as driving in the F2 class of the 1969 German Grand Prix. Stewart described Ceverts rookie year by saying: Franois was like a sponge. Stewart was setting his mentee up to eventually, one day, replace him as number one on the Tyrrell team. He learned that he had to be smooth, that he couldnt upset the car.. At the same time he registered for the Volant Shell scholarship competition, which offered the top finisher the prize of an Alpine Formula Three car. Shielding my eyes from the bright blue day, I pointed. When the track patrol came into sight, I knew it was my time to return to camp. We all make sense of tragedy in different ways. His biographer, Jean-Claude Hall, hypothesizes that, perhaps in some way, Franois knew what was coming. Dark hair, about to here. She gestured just past her ears. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Franois Cvert I found on Findagrave.com. After making his debut at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in Tyrrell's second customer March-Ford, he increased his pace and closed the gap to Stewart with virtually every race. Grand Prix USA 1971. It all feels serendipitous. When Johnny Servoz-Gavin suddenly retired from the Tyrrell Formula One team three races into the 1970 season, Tyrrell called upon Cevert to be his number two driver, alongside defending World Champion Stewart. Birthday: February 27, 1939 Date of Death: March 22, 1974 Age at Death: 35 Over the next four seasons, Cvert became the veteran Stewart's devoted protg. His conclusion was that his preference was to take The Esses complex in fourth gear in the Tyrrell, hence he would be at the low end of the engine's rev range, making the car more tractable and less nervous (in exchange for a bit less throttle response). He might have lived the playboy lifestyle the same way Rush portrays James Hunt as doing, and that would become his legend. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Both the Scotsman and the team stepped down, passing over the Constructors title to Lotus. His philosophy teacher called him too pretentious and not sufficiently hardworking. Better than nothing, the 16-year-old Cevert began driving scooters around the capital city with his friends. The top global causes of death, in order of total number of lives lost, are associated with three broad topics: cardiovascular (ischaemic heart disease, stroke), respiratory (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory infections) and neonatal conditions - which include birth asphyxia and birth trauma, neonatal sepsis and infections, A hardback copy of the now out-of-print book, 'A Contract with Death' about Grand Prix driver, Francois Cevert, by Jean-Claude Halle. He just enjoyed talking his mother into buying faster and faster scooters and racing them through the streets. In 1981, due to the tracks inability to pay its debt to the constructors as well as the quality issues of its tarnish, the Grand Prix got temporarily removed from the race calendar. Brundle: Alonso and Hamilton against army of youngsters, fascinating! The rest, they say, is history. I drove up to Canada to spend time with him in August. But that day, something was different. While most of my other companions saw the novelty wear off around the time we walked the length of the Boot, I was on a mission. And I dont know if Id like that. Because of Cevert's death, Tyrell withdrew its entry for this GP, and Stewart did not run his final, and 100th race. 27 Dec, 19. Then, in the season-ending United States Grand Prix at the newly-extended Watkins Glen race course, the Frenchman earned his first and only Grand Prix win: Having started from fifth spot, Cevert took the lead from Stewart on lap 14 as the Scot's tires began to go off in the 100 heat. His ambition was firm, he wanted to end the season ahead of Fittipaldi and Peterson. The ensuing spin and accident will involve nine cars and become one of the most famous multi-car incidents in F1, perhaps now only behind the 1998 Belgian GP crash. At the age of 20, with the backing of an older woman he met while vacationing, Cevert enrolled into Again, the clairvoyante looked at the picture and lapsed into a long silence. The most beautiful blue eyes Ive ever seen. Cevert was 29 years and 224 days old. It was quicker in some ways, but it required a gear change partway through the corner, and it was jumpier. Unfortunately, on a beautiful fall day amidst the pastoral surroundings of New York State's Finger Lakes region, the name Albert Francois Cevert would be . Somewhere in the caverns of my throat, my heartbeat stuttered. A film documentary of the time, shot minutes before the start of the fatal practice session, captures Stewart and Cevert in a spirited debate on exactly this point. We were talking about drivers we both admired, and up came the name, Francois Cevert. In 1971, with the Tyrrell team now building their own cars, Cevert finished second in France and Germany, both times behind team leader Stewart. Rouen. Charles Goldenberg was born in Russia but moved to Paris with his parents in his infancy to escape the persecution of the Jews. Franois Cevert died at Watkins Glen International in upstate New York on October 6, 1973. With his new mount Cevert finally started to win races, and by the end of the season he was French Formula 3 Champion, just ahead of Jean-Pierre Jabouille. He made his debut at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in Tyrrell's second customer March-Ford. On Saturday morning Cevert left the track and crashed horribly. It may take time for me to unravel, but when I do, it can become useful to me again. In 1970, Tyrrell called upon Cvert to be his. Cevert was died after a fatal crash on the uphill Esses. As for fourth gear, percentage for gear is high, it causes cushion works, and absorbs the change of impact gently. When Johnny Servoz-Gavin suddenly retired from the Tyrrell Formula One team three races into the 1970 season, Tyrrell called upon Cevert to be his number two driver, alongside defending World Champion Stewart. Cevert was 29 years and 224 days old. It was the high point of his career, helping him take third place in the 1971 Driver's Championship behind Stewart and Ronnie Peterson. In, d Crawford filtrates his corpuscles will-lessly. Its the youth and the wasted potential. I started watching modern races. To my left, the Esses. But the next morning, as we nursed hangovers with Pedialyte and a cacophony of race cars warming up in practice, my friend Remy asked me, Did you see all those fireflies last night?, Theres this legend, they began, a little haltingly, that fireflies are the souls of the dead. But he was dead. If I were to rewrite history in his favor, he would have won the 1974 Formula One World Championship instead of Emerson Fittipaldi, but that would be all, I think. Hulme was standing beside the track when Cevert came by and also slid off and hit the barrier, but he kept going, now 29 seconds in the lead! Try again later. I dont know how many breathless moments I spent there, enveloped in the comfort of the moment, but the peace couldnt last forever. Stewart noted that the Tyrrell always felt jumpy through this section of the Watkins Glen track owing to its short wheelbase; he felt that this was somewhat counteracted by driving in the higher gear even though this meant a time penalty if he got his line wrong through the corner. Fighting the car as he went up the hill, he brushed the curb on the left, whipped across the track and hit the guardrail on the right. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. Paris, City of Paris, le-de-France, France, Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, New York, USA. 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