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The ascents of Mont Ventoux
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The first recorded ascent of Mont Ventoux was undertaken on April 26, 1336, by the Italian poet Petrarch who described the panorama offered from the summit and the spiritual experience of this climb. However, the French philosopher Jean Buridan would have reached the summit of Ventoux two years earlier, in 1334. Scientific ascents then multiplied from the beginning of the 18th century for geographical, meteorological, astronomical observations and botanical, entomological, and faunistic studies. Tourist ascents developed simultaneously in the wake of the first true excursionist, Amélie de Sade, who, from 1783 to 1788, took part in several expeditions to the summit of Mont Ventoux in the company of Abbott Jean-Antoine Constantin, the parish priest of Aurel.
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