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Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep - The Tale of the First Tour de France (Paperback)
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Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep - The Tale of the First Tour de France (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 1 840
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From the winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Cycling Book of
the Year 2018 The first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful
affair full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at
cheating. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an
Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of
cheese by his parents in order to smuggle him into France to clean
chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark
handlebar moustache, and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a
blacksmith who had never raced before. Would this ramshackle pack
of cyclists draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer
the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, and, all thanks to a
marketing ruse dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L'Auto,
cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us
through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait
of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting
event of all began.
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