DISRAELI GEARS

de Vivie

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Paul de Vivie is widely viewed as the ‘father’ of the derailleur gear. According to most accounts, the bare bones of his story might go like this:

  • He was born in Pernes-les-Fontaines, near Carpentras in southern France in 1853.
  • He moved to St-Étienne some time before 1876, and worked in the silk trade.
  • He bought his first bicycle in 1881 and also founded a cycling club called Les Cyclistes Stéphanois (St-Étienne is the French for Saint Stephen, and locals refer to themselves as Stéphanois).
  • His work in the silk industry took him to Coventry, then the world centre of the bicycle industry, where he became fascinated by the latest developments in bicycle technology. He joined the UK-based Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC).
  • He decided to sell his silk business and get into the bicycle trade.
  • In 1882 he launched a cycle manufacturing business possibly called ‘La Manufacture Stéphanoise de Cycles’ and branded his bikes ‘La Gauloise’.
  • In 1887 he opened a bicycle import business in St-Étienne called ‘Agence Générale Vélocipédique’.
  • In 1887 he also founded (and edited) a magazine called ‘Le Cycliste Forézien’. Forez is an area of great natural beauty to the west of St-Étienne and Forézien is a dialect spoken there and in St-Étienne.
  • In 1888 he renamed his magazine ‘Le Cycliste’. It continued to be published, under successive editors, at least until the 1970s.
  • When writing in Le Cycliste he used the pen name Vélocio.
  • In 1889, inspired by the Cyclists’ Touring Club, he helped found the Touring Club de France (TCF).
  • He was a regular contributor to the ‘TCF Revue Mensuelle’ (the TCF Monthly Revue) from the 1890s to the 1920s.
  • He was killed by a tram while wheeling his bike in St-Étienne in 1930.
  • He has a road named after him in St-Étienne and a monument commemorating him on his beloved Col du Grand Bois.

None of this captures Paul de Vivie’s importance in the history of cycling. He was among the first Frenchmen to understand that there was the cut and thrust of racing cycling, there was everyday utility cycling for transport but there was also something else - a kind of cycling that was about unalloyed freedom, the simple pleasure of exercise in the fresh air, away from the crowded polluted city, a zen activity in which you competed against nobody but yourself and the view from the top of the climb was the only prize you required. Paul de Vivie called this type of cycling ‘cyclotourisme’ and wrote about it extensively.

He also quickly realised that the very essence of ‘cyclotourisme’ included the brisk, but not too brisk, covering of heroic distances, the measured, but relentless, climbing of Herculean mountains and the achievement of all this without dying of exhaustion. This naturally led him to explore variable gearing, but to do so with a healthy scepticism about hub gears with their fixed gear ratios and their multiplicity of tiny, fragile, precision engineered, expensive, parts. This, in turn, led him, step by step, to the derailleur. A possible order of these steps might be as follows:

  • His first step (perhaps around 1897) involved a pair of different sized chainwheels aligned with a pair of different sized sprockets. The pairs were ‘matched’ in that the sum of the number of teeth on each chainwheel and sprocket set were the same. The gear ratio could be changed by manually moving the chain from one chainwheel & sprocket set to the other. Because of the ‘matching’ the same length of chain could be used on both sets. Paul de Vivie’s preferred set up seems to have been to have one chainwheel and sprocket set on each side of the frame.
  • Slightly later (1898?) he introduced the idea of a special chain link that could be opened to facilitate the moving of the chain.
  • Then (1900?) he advocated the idea of the bi-chain - two chains running at once (one on each side of the frame) with different chainwheels and sprockets on each side and a clutch in the rear hub to determine which side was doing the driving.
  • The next step was the retro-direct, a transmission system involving a looped chain that gave one ratio when pedaling forward and another when pedaling backwards. It is possible that Paul de Vivie’s particular contribution was to combine the retro-direct with the bi-chain to give up to 4 gear ratios.
  • Up to this point Paul de Vivie had not only been an avid inventor, he had also been a small scale manufacturer of some note. But a small disaster struck in the famous TCF Concours de Bicyclettes de Tourisme of 1902, when all three of his entries failed to complete the course. The most successful bicycles were made by larger scale manufacturers rather than small workshops. From this point onwards he turned more towards advocacy and invention and away from production.
  • Some time in the early 1900s he had acquired a Whippet derailleur bicycle manufactured in London. This, and the success of the derailleur equipped Terrot Modèle H in the 1905 TCF Concours de Bicyclettes de Voyage, started to focus his attention on derailleurs.
  • By 1908 Paul de Vivie appears to have developed a 4 speed ‘La Gauloise’ derailleur which combined many of the elements of a modern system. It involved a cable operated tension arm, mounted with pulleys which shifted the chain sideways across a 4 speed freewhweel (unlike the Terrot Modèle H which shifted the freewheel cogs sideways and kept the chainline straight). With Paul de Vivie’s blessing, Joanny Panel and Claudius Bouillier developed this design into the ‘Le Chemineau’ derailleur, and patented it in 1912.
  • He was not entirely happy with his 1908 design because it was low normal. This meant that the (relatively feeble) spring did the ‘hard’ work of pushing the chain onto the bigger cogs, while the (relatively strong) human did the ‘easy’ work of pushing the chain onto the smaller cogs. If the cable broke, the derailleur tended to go into the spokes. In about 1910 he produced a top normal design which he referred to as working on ‘the clothes peg principle’. I believe that this interesting design never made it into volume production.
  • In the 1926? photo of an elderly Paul de Vivie, in this collection, he is posing with one of his signature small-wheeled, fat-tyred bicycles fitted with a production model of a ‘Le Cyclo’ gear made by his friend Albert Raimond. Within his lifetime, and through his efforts, the derailleur had become a conventional and widely used bicycle component.


see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1891 - Le Cycliste ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1891 - Le Cycliste ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle January 1891 - Le Cycliste advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1891 - Communications Officielles

see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1891 - Communications Officielles

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle April 1891 - Communications Officielles scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1893 - De la Position du Cycliste

see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1893 - De la Position du Cycliste

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle August 1893 - De la Position du Cycliste scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1895 - La Bicyclette du Touriste

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1895 - La Bicyclette du Touriste

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle March 1895 - La Bicyclette du Touriste scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 11/1897 - Machines Mixtes (part I)

see also TCF Rev Mens 11/1897 - Machines Mixtes (part I)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1898 - La Bicyclette idéale du Touriste

see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1898 - La Bicyclette idéale du Touriste

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see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1898 - Machines Mixtes (part II)

see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1898 - Machines Mixtes (part II)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 02/1898 - Machines et Modes nouvelles

see also TCF Rev Mens 02/1898 - Machines et Modes nouvelles

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see also TCF Rev Mens 06/1898 - Machines Mixtes (part III)

see also TCF Rev Mens 06/1898 - Machines Mixtes (part III)

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 02/1899 Machines à plusieurs développements

see also TCF Rev Mens - 02/1899 Machines à plusieurs développements

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see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1899 - En Montagne

see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1899 - En Montagne

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle August 1899 - En Montagne scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1899 - Bicyclettes à roue libre

see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1899 - Bicyclettes à roue libre

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see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1900 - La Merveilleuse Invention

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1900 - La Merveilleuse Invention

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle March 1900 - La Merveilleuse Invention thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1900 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1900 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle April 1900 - de Vivie advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1900 - Plaine ou Montagne?

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1900 - Plaine ou Montagne?

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 10/1900 La Bicyclette à plusieurs développements

see also TCF Rev Mens - 10/1900 La Bicyclette à plusieurs développements

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see also TCF Rev Mens 12/1900 - de Vivie ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 12/1900 - de Vivie ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle December 1900 - de Vivie advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1901 - Un peu plus de lumière

see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1901 - Un peu plus de lumière

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see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1901 - Sur le terrain

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1901 - Sur le terrain

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle May 1901 - Sur le terrain scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1901 - Autour du Concours de Freins

see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1901 - Autour du Concours de Freins

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see also TCF Rev Mens 11/1901 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 11/1901 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle November 1901 - de Vive advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1902 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1902 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle March 1902 - de Vive advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens - 07/1902 Concours de Bicyclettes de Tourisme (part I)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 07/1902 Concours de Bicyclettes de Tourisme (part I)

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 08/1902 Concours de Bicyclettes de Tourisme (part II)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 08/1902 Concours de Bicyclettes de Tourisme (part II)

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 10/1902 Concours de Bicyclettes de Tourisme (part IV)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 10/1902 Concours de Bicyclettes de Tourisme (part IV)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1903 - Gauloise ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1903 - Gauloise ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle April 1903 - Gauloise advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1904 - W.F.W. ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1904 - W.F.W. ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle March 1904 - WFW advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1905 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1905 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle May 1905 - de Vive advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1906 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1906 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle March 1906 - de Vive advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1906 - Gauloise ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1906 - Gauloise ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle March 1906 - Gauloise advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 07/1906 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 07/1906 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle July 1906 - de Vive advert thumbnail


see also Chemineau postcard - 1906 Velocio avec son carrosse de gala

see also Chemineau postcard - 1906 Velocio avec son carrosse de gala

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see also Chemineau postcard - Vélocio à l’un de ses petits déjeuners 1906?

see also Chemineau postcard - Vélocio à l’un de ses petits déjeuners 1906?

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see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1907 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1907 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle April 1907 - de Vive advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1908 - A chaque âge sa bicyclette

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1908 - A chaque âge sa bicyclette

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see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1908 - de Vive ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1908 - de Vive ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle May 1908 - de Vive advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1908 - La Bicyclette de Route

see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1908 - La Bicyclette de Route

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle October 1908 - La Bicyclette de Route scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1909 - La Bicyclette au Salon (part I)

see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1909 - La Bicyclette au Salon (part I)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 02/1909 - La Bicyclette au Salon (part II)

see also TCF Rev Mens 02/1909 - La Bicyclette au Salon (part II)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1909 - Écoles de Cyclitation

see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1909 - Écoles de Cyclitation

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle August 1909 - Ecoles de Cyclitation scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens - 11/1909 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part I)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 11/1909 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part I)

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see also Chemineau postcard - 1909 L’École Stéphanoise

see also Chemineau postcard - 1909 L’École Stéphanoise

Chemineau postcard - 1909 L-Ecole Stephanoise scan 1 thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens - 01/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part II)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 01/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part II)

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 03/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part III)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 03/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part III)

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 05/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part IV)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 05/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part IV)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1910 - Gauloise ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1910 - Gauloise ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle May 1910 - Gauloise advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens - 07/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part V)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 07/1910 Comment choisir sa bicyclette? (part V)

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 09/1910 L’Avenir du tandem mixte (part I)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 09/1910 L’Avenir du tandem mixte (part I)

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 11/1910 L’Avenir du tandem mixte (part II)

see also TCF Rev Mens - 11/1910 L’Avenir du tandem mixte (part II)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1911 - La Bicyclette au Salon

see also TCF Rev Mens 01/1911 - La Bicyclette au Salon

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see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1911 - Un Nouveau Concours?

see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1911 - Un Nouveau Concours?

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 09/1911 Les enseignements du Tour de France

see also TCF Rev Mens - 09/1911 Les enseignements du Tour de France

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see also French Patent # 439,224 - Chemineau 1912

see also French Patent # 439,224 - Chemineau 1912

French Patent 439,224 - Le Chemineau thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens - 01/1912 Aux débutants les solutions simples

see also TCF Rev Mens - 01/1912 Aux débutants les solutions simples

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see also TCF Rev Mens 02/1912 - Le Cycliste ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 02/1912 - Le Cycliste ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle February 1912 - Le Cycliste advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part I)

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part I)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1912 - Gauloise ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1912 - Gauloise ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle May 1912 - Gauloise advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part II)

see also TCF Rev Mens 05/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part II)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part III)

see also TCF Rev Mens 08/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part III)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 11/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part IV)

see also TCF Rev Mens 11/1912 - Nos Ennemis (part IV)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1913 - La Bicyclette hors du Salon

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1913 - La Bicyclette hors du Salon

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see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1913 - Nos Ennemis (part V)

see also TCF Rev Mens 10/1913 - Nos Ennemis (part V)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1914 - Pour le Cyclotourisme

see also TCF Rev Mens 03/1914 - Pour le Cyclotourisme

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see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1914 - Nos Ennemis (part VI)

see also TCF Rev Mens 04/1914 - Nos Ennemis (part VI)

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see also TCF Rev Mens 12/1918 - Gauloise ad

see also TCF Rev Mens 12/1918 - Gauloise ad

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle December 1918 - Gauloise advert thumbnail


see also TCF Rev Mens 09/1920 - Jantes et Pneus

see also TCF Rev Mens 09/1920 - Jantes et Pneus

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 12/1920 La Bicyclette de Tourisme au Concours des Voges

see also TCF Rev Mens - 12/1920 La Bicyclette de Tourisme au Concours des Voges

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 07/1921 Troisième championnat de la bicyclette polymultipliée

see also TCF Rev Mens - 07/1921 Troisième championnat de la bicyclette polymultipliée

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle July 1921 - Troisieme championnat de la bicyclette polymultipliee scan 1 thumbnail


see also Random French postcard - Paul de Vivie dit “Vélocio” 1926?

see also Random French postcard - Paul de Vivie dit “Vélocio” 1926?

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see also Le Forez Sportif 17/05/1928 - Chemineau ad

see also Le Forez Sportif 17/05/1928 - Chemineau ad

Le Forez Sportif 17th May 1928 - Chemineau advert thumbnail


Paul de Vivie - 1929 photo no. 1

Paul de Vivie - 1929 photo no. 1

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Paul de Vivie - 1929 photo no. 2

Paul de Vivie - 1929 photo no. 2

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 02/1930 Les derniers perfectionnements du Cycle

see also TCF Rev Mens - 02/1930 Les derniers perfectionnements du Cycle

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see also Rue de la Préfecture, St-Étienne - postcard 1930

see also Rue de la Préfecture, St-Étienne - postcard 1930

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 04/1930 Nouvelles du Tourisme

see also TCF Rev Mens - 04/1930 Nouvelles du Tourisme

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 01/1931 Les Salons du Cycle en 1930

see also TCF Rev Mens - 01/1931 Les Salons du Cycle en 1930

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 11/1931 La cinquième semaine du cycle de Saint-Étienne

see also TCF Rev Mens - 11/1931 La cinquième semaine du cycle de Saint-Étienne

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see also TCF Rev Mens - 12/1932 La bicyclette au Salon de 1932

see also TCF Rev Mens - 12/1932 La bicyclette au Salon de 1932

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see also Cyclotourisme 03/1933 - Paul de Vivie photo

see also Cyclotourisme 03/1933 - Paul de Vivie photo

Cyclotourisme March 1933 - Paul de Vivie photo thumbnail


see also Le Forez Sportif 03/07/1935 - image of Paul de Vivie

see also Le Forez Sportif 03/07/1935 - image of Paul de Vivie

Le Forez Sportif 3rd July 1935 - image of Paul de Vivie thumbnail


see also Le Forez Sportif 19/08/1936 - image of Paul de Vivie

see also Le Forez Sportif 19/08/1936 - image of Paul de Vivie

Le Forez Sportif 19th August 1936 - image of Paul de Vivie thumbnail


see also La Pédale Touristique 20/07/1938 - M. P. de Vivie entouré de fidèles amis

see also La Pédale Touristique 20/07/1938 - M. P. de Vivie entouré de fidèles amis

La Pédale Touristique July 1938 - M. P. de Vivie entouré de fidèles amis thumbnail


see also Cyclo - Il y a 25 ans 1949?

see also Cyclo - Il y a 25 ans 1949?

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see also Random French postcard - Col du Grand-Bois 1950?

see also Random French postcard - Col du Grand-Bois 1950?

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see also Cyclo - Origine du dérailleur 1959

see also Cyclo - Origine du dérailleur 1959

  • Publisher: Cyclo
  • Date: 1959
  • Derailleur brands: Cyclo, plus too many others to mention here
  • Derailleurs: too many to mention
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see also Editions Rencontre card - Paul de Vivie 1978

see also Editions Rencontre card - Paul de Vivie 1978

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