La Course Bordeaux-Périgueux-Bordeaux – La Vie au Grand Air – 17 June 1900
On 3-4 June 1900, the Bordeaux-Périgeux-Bordeaux race was held for the third time. Both earlier races were won won by Barbereau. Now, raced over two stages back and forth, it was won by Alfred Velghe (“Levegh”) in a Mors with an average speed of about 78 kmh. On the first stage even, he averaged no […]
La Course du Catalogue, Translation – La Vie au Grand Air – 4 March 1900
Comment is on the way. (Translation separately.) With permission of the Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr Text and photos compiled by motorracinghistory.com, Translation by DeepL deepl.comLa Vie au Grand Air – No. 77, March 4, 1900 The Catalogue Race Over the past few days, we’ve had an interesting experience with our colleague Meyan regarding the so-called […]
La Course du Catalogue – La Vie au Grand Air – 4 March 1900
Comment is on the way. (Translation separately.) Avec l’autorisation du Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr – Texte et photos compilé par motorracinghistory.comLa Vie au Grand Air – No. 77, 4 Mars 1900 La Course du Catalogue Nous avons eu ces jours derniers une intéressante expérience faite par notre confrère Meyan avec la course dite du Catalogue. […]
La Course du Tour de France – La Vie au Grand Air – 30 July 1899
In the second year of its appearance, “La Vie au Grand Air” mostly showed relatively many photos, combined with only very limited written comments on the events, they reported on. This one, on the first Tour de France, only fotos with accompanying comments were published. This would soon change, however, as more journalistst wrote for […]
La Course du Tour de France, Translation – La Vie au Grand Air – 30 July 1899
In the second year of its appearance, “La Vie au Grand Air” mostly showed relatively many photos, combined with only very limited written comments on the events, they reported on. This one, on the first Tour de France, only fotos with accompanying comments were published. This would soon change, however, as more journalistst wrote for […]
La Grande Semaine Sportive de Bordeaux – La Vie au Grand Air – 4 June 1899
Since the initial Petit Journal contest of 1894, Paris was undisputedly the automobile capital. But some years later, Bordeaux more and more played an automotive role. In the May 1899 “Semaine Bordeaux” event, two “courses automobiles” were organized, that are reported in the article. Paris-Périgueux-Paris race, organized among others by “Le Vélo” (again, a newspaper), […]
La Grande Semaine Sportive de Bordeaux, Translation – La Vie au Grand Air – 4 June 1899
Since the initial Petit Journal contest of 1894, Paris was undisputedly the automobile capital. But some years later, Bordeaux more and more played an automotive role. In the May 1899 “Semaine Bordeaux” event, two “courses automobiles” were organized, that are reported in the article. Paris-Périgueux-Paris race, organized among others by “Le Vélo” (again, a newspaper), […]
La Course d’automobile du Tour de France – Le Monde Illustré – 29 July 1899
Comment is on the way. (Translation included at the end) Avec l’autorisation du Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr – Texte et photos compilé par motorracinghistory.comLe Monde Illustré – 43e Année, No. 2209, 29 Juillet 1899 La Course du Tour de France (Photographies Borie.) La course d’automobiles, dite du Tour de France, est certainement l’événement sportif de […]
La Course d’automobile du Tour de France, Translation – Le Monde Illustré – 29 July 1899
Comment is on the way. (Translation included at the end) With permission of the Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr Text and photos compiled by motorracinghistory, translation by DeepL deepl.comLe Monde Illustré (Illustrated World) – 43e Année, No. 2209, 29 Juillet 1899 The Tour de France Race (Photographs Borie.) The automobile race known as the Tour de […]
Paris-Trouville, Automobiles, Translation – Le Sport Universel Illustré – 28 August 1897
Comment is on the way. With permission of the Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr Text and photos compiled by motorracinghistory, Tramslation by DeepL deepl.comLe Sport Universel Illustré – 2e Année, 28 August 1897 PARIS-TROUVILLE – AUTOMOBILES WE have already summarized in a few lines the nature of the Paris-Trouville automobile race, organized by our colleague Le […]