Henri Desgrange was a French bicycle racer and sports journalist. He set twelve world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 kilometers on May 11, 1893. Desgrange is credited with founding the Tour de France in 1903. Certainly, with the Baron de Dion he had co-founded the daily sports paper "L'Auto", which promoted the Tour to boost its poor circulation, but the idea came from one of his journalists, Géo Lefèvre, just 23, … Wikipedia
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