The Souvenir Henri Desgrange is a prize presented by the organizers and awarded yearly in the Tour de France. It is awarded to honor TdF founder Henri Desgrange, who died in 1940. The prize is won by the rider who crosses the highest summit in the Tour.

Following the death of Desgrange in August 1940, an award was given in his honor for the first time in the 1947 Tour, the first Tour since 1939, having been cancelled during World War II. The first prize was awarded on Stage 11 in 1947, when to Tour passed Desgrange's final residence, the "Villa Mia" in Beauvallon, Grimaud, on the French Riviera.

The Souvenir Henri Desgrange would evolve and in the 1965 Tour, the Galibier (Desgrange’s favorite climb) became ‘THE’ climb of the SHD. It has always been used when it was on the race route for that year.

The Souvenir Henri Desgrange List in the Tour de France

* Awarded at Desgrange's final residence in Beauvallon, Grimaud, Nice located on the French Riviera.

** The first stage of the 1948 Tour, the prize was earned in the opening few kilometers at the summit of the Côte de Picardie climb in Versailles, Paris.

1949: a Monument to honor Desgrange was built from the southern entrance to the summit tunnel on the Col du Galibier. This was his favorite mountain climb and one of the Tour's most iconic climbs.

*** The 1950 and 1951 Tours designated the award be moved into the mountains at the summit of the Col du Lautaret, the pass that directly precedes the Galibier climb from the south.

Beginning in 1952, when the finish line for the prize was taken by the HD Monument on the Col du Galibier.

Occasionally, non-summit points have been used for the award. The village of Cysoing (near Roubaix in the north of France) hosted a portion of stage 2 in the 1956 Tour. The village marked the point that 200,000 kilometers had been raced in the history of the TdF.

Year	Location / Climb	Elevation	Winner	Stage
1957	Beauvallon, Grimaud *	1.5 m	Jean Stablinski (Fra)	12
1958	Col du Lautaret	2,058 m	Piet van Est (Ned)	21
1959	Col du Galibier	2,556 m	Charly Gaul (Lux)	18
1960	Col du Lautaret	2,058 m	Jean Graczyk (Fra)	17
1961	Ballon d'Alsace	1,178 m	Jef Planckaert (Bel)	6
1962	Col du Lautaret	2,058 m	Juan Campillo (Spa)	19
1963	The "climbing" prize was not awarded in 1963 - At the conclusion of the 1963 Tour de France, there was a special 'Souvenir Desgrange' prize given to the cyclist who in the GC rode with the best "head and legs". Jacques Anquetil received the special prize.

After 1964 only twice has the SHD been awarded at a non-mountain summit:

1971 Côte de Dourdan (492 m)

1978 village of Sainte-Marie de Campan (857 m).

1965: the Tour organizers changed the SHD to the Col du Galibier and it has been used every year when it was on that year's race route.

1971: The Côte de Dourdan is in Dourdan, Île-de-France. It is a climb with average grade of this climb is 8% with a maximum of 10% with a length of 492 meters.