The 1929 Tour de France was the 23rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris with a flat stage on 30 June, and Stage 11 occurred on 13 July with a flat stage to Marseille. The race finished in Paris on 28 July.
The 1929 Tour de France was the 23rd edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 30 June to 28 July. It consisted of 22 stages over 5,286 km (3,285 mi).
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts.
Marseille is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, it nowadays is the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is located on France's south coast near the mouth of the Rhône river. The city covers an area of 241 km2 (93 sq mi) and had a population of 852,516 in 2012. Its metropolitan area, which extends over 3,173 km2 (1,225 sq mi) is the third-largest in France after Paris and Lyon, with a population of 1,831,500 as of 2010.
30 June 1929 — Paris to Caen, 206 km (128 mi) [1]
Stage 1 result and general classification after stage 1 [1]
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1 July 1929 — Caen to Cherbourg, 140 km (87 mi) [1]
Caen, is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department. The city proper has 108,365 inhabitants, while its urban area has 420,000, making Caen the largest city in former Lower Normandy. It is also the third largest municipality in all of Normandy after Le Havre and Rouen and the third largest city proper in Normandy, after Rouen and Le Havre. The metropolitan area of Caen, in turn, is the second largest in Normandy after that of Rouen, the 21st largest in France.
Stage 2 result [1]
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2 July 1929 — Cherbourg to Dinan, 199 km (124 mi) [1]
Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Léhon was merged into Dinan.
Stage 3 result [1]
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3 July 1929 — Dinan to Brest, 206 km (128 mi) [1]
Stage 4 result [1]
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4 July 1929 — Brest to Vannes, 208 km (129 mi) [1]
Stage 5 result [1]
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5 July 1929 — Vannes to Les Sables d'Olonne, 204 km (127 mi) [1]
Vannes is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It was founded over 2,000 years ago.
Stage 6 result [1]
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6 July 1929 — Les Sables d'Olonne to Bordeaux, 285 km (177 mi) [1]
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.
Stage 7 result [1]
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7 July 1929 — Bordeaux to Bayonne, 182 km (113 mi) [1]
Bayonne is a city and commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers in the northern part of the cultural region of the Basque Country, as well as the southern part of Gascony where the Aquitaine basin joins the beginning of the Pre-Pyrenees.
Stage 8 result [1]
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9 July 1929 — Bayonne to Luchon, 363 km (226 mi) [1]
Stage 9 result [1]
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10 July 1929 — Luchon to Perpignan, 323 km (201 mi) [1]
Stage 10 result [1]
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13 July 1929 — Perpignan to Marseille, 366 km (227 mi) [1]
Stage 11 result [1]
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Paul Duboc was a French professional road bicycle racer from 1907 through 1927. Despite winning 5 career stages in the Tour de France, he may be most remembered for being disqualified at the 1919 Tour de France for borrowing a car to go and repair his pedal axle. In 1911, Duboc was close to winning the Tour de France, when he became ill after drinking from a poisoned bottle given to him. His fans were blaming the classification leader Gustave Garrigou, and the Tour organizers advised Garrigou to ride under disguise. Duboc would end the 1911 Tour de France in second place, his best result.
Adelin Benoît was a Belgian road racing cyclist, born in Châtelet. Surprising newcomer in Tour de France 1925, he got the yellow jersey during 5 days, and won the stage in Luchon.
Max Bulla was an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. In the 1931 Tour de France, Bulla won three stages and wore the yellow jersey for one day. He eventually finished the Tour in 15th place overall and won the classification for independent riders. Bulla finished fifth overall and won two stages at the 1935 Vuelta a España. He was born in Vienna and died in Pitten.
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