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Robert Capa - FRANCE. Tour de France. July 1939.
FRANCE. July, 1939. Boy watching the Tour de France.
FRANCE. Brittany. Pleybon. July 1939. A crowd gathered in front of Mr. Pierre Cloarec's bicycle shop. The owner of the shop is racing in the Tour de France.
FRANCE. July 1939. Tour de France. Spectators.
Being a Press Photographer on the "tour" is not an easy job, yet there are moments when the backseat passenger can take a rest.
A smartly dressed 'starter' raises the flag for the beginning of a new lap in the race.
Two former war veterans take a drink waiting for the arrival of the 'tour', one of them hold a bugle showing his role as the local announcer of events.
A photographer of the tour with his motor cycle driver.
A stopover refreshment halt in a harvest cornfield for tired cyclists.
In a small French town, a veteran sits below the fountain and contemplates the press designation of the cyclists.
1935 FRANCE.The Tour de France bicycle race. July 1939.
Goggles firmly in place and a flask of water in their back pockets, each man pedals faster to reach the
The cyclists stop for the day to rest, wash and clean up from a hard day of pedalling.
A Gendarme points with his truncheon the route to be taken through a town, the locals wait at kerbside to watch the passing of the cyclists.
A short stopover and refreshment point, weary cyclists meet the local population.
Young spectators with leaflets showing the participants of the tour.
A radio announcer at the arrival of the team in a stadium.
FRANCE. Brittany. Pleybon. 1935. A crowd gathered in front of Mr Pierre Cloarec's bicycle shop. The owner of the shop is racing in the Tour de France.
Spectators waiting for the tour to pass.
A press reporter and his motorcycle driver.
A refreshment break for the cyclists and their maintenance team
FRANCE. Brittany. Pleybon. July 1939. A crowd gathered in front of Mr. Pierre Cloarec's bicycle shop. The owner of the shop is racing in the Tour de France.
A press car of the tour talking to their motorcycle outrider.
Part of the hardest stretch are the Alpine mountain passes, people come down from their mountain villages to await the passing of the "tour".
The official car of LE PETIT DAUPHINOIS newspaper with its sports journalists.
The team stops to put on rainproof clothing.
FRANCE. Tour de France. July 1939. Promotional press on the arrival of the tour.
A nurse treats the injured arm of a cyclist grazed during a fall.
Village crowds waiting for the arrival of the tour.
Cyclists during the peddling of a mountain pass.
A newspaper vendor draws buyers on the latest results of the 'tour'.
Cyclists hitch their bicycles over their shoulders and climb the hedges as the route is changed.
These town citizens appear to be impatient, the tour will rapidly pass through their streets on its destination, leaving but a glimpse of this summer event.
Cyclists resting between laps.
FRANCE. Brittany. Pleybon. July 1939. A crowd gathered in front of Mr. Pierre Cloarec's bicycle shop. The owner of the shop is racing in the Tour de France.
FRANCE.
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