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16 ago 2017 · Bicycle pioneer Henri Desgrange died in the commune of Beauvallon in southeastern France at the age of 75. Desgrange had been born into a middle-class family in Paris in 1865. Early on in his working life, he served as a clerk in one of the city’s law firms. Desgrange also developed a strong enthusiasm for…
Henri Desgrange. Profession: Cyclist and Founder of the Tour-de-France. Nationality: French. Biography: Desgrange is known not only for setting twelve world track cycling records but, perhaps more enduringly, for organising the first Tour de France in 1903. Credit for the idea, however, must go to one of Desgrange's journalists, Géo Lefèvre ...
Henri Desgrange was a Victorian relic who was ahead of his time. He evidently understood the power of heroics to inspire and improve the general public. He understood the power of the extreme, and the power of the media to harness it (and make money). He would probably baulk at today’s race radios, power meters, extreme weather protocols and ...
6. Le nom d'Henri Desgrange, né le 31 janvier 1865, est intimement lié à l'histoire du cyclisme. S'il établit, le 11 mai 1893 au vélodrome Buffalo à Paris, le premier record de l'heure (35,325 km), c'est en tant que créateur et patron du Tour de France qu'il va passer à la postérité. Le 16 octobre 1900, il se voit confier par un ...
9 gen 2022 · Legend has it that Henri Desgrange, creator of the Tour de France, once paid cycling’s first Black world champion with 10-centime coins, so many that Major Taylor needed a wheelbarrow to cart ...
16 feb 2022 · 16 February 2022 by PelotonTales. The founding father of the Tour de France, Henri Desgrange (1865-1940) was a cyclist in his younger days. He set twelve world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 km (1893) Henri Desgrange in 1893. Apparently, Desgrange saw a bicycle race for a very first time while visiting the finish of ...
3 lug 2013 · Desgrange believed that sport and exercise would improve the nation physically and morally. It was a belief that he lived out in his own life, timing himself to walk across his bedroom even days before he died at home on the Mediterranean coast on August 16, 1940, age 75. The first Tour de France. Tour de France founder Henri Desgrange was a ...
