This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a w

When Henri Desgrange began a new bicycle road race in 1903, he saw it as little more than a temporary publicity stunt to promote his newspaper. The sixty cyclis

'The history of the Tour is a huge history, with fantastic, epic stories. I'm just one of the actors on the stage of TDF history. . . looking at the photos and