A moment in time Robic wins the ‘Tour of the Liberation’
Much anticipation gripped the towns and villages of France in the early summer of 1947. It had been eight years since the Tour de France had taken to the nation’s roads and the return of cycling’s greatest race was a hugely significant event in post-war Europe.
As the start date neared, French journalists wrote of the importance of the race in the fabric of French life, recalling fond childhood memories of seeing the race pass their homes for the first time, and journals ran pictures from previous races – riders eating with their teams at long tables and crowding over benches laden with
