A moment in time The second Tour ends in chaos
‘Last year, when our director Henri Desgrange had the idea for this colossal test and he communicated it to the readers of , it was not only the enthusiasm of the sportsmen that it aroused, but also doubt and disbelief,’ wrote ’s Géo Lefèvre on 1st July 1904. ‘How do you hope to find men who, after having gone from Paris to Lyon, then left again for Marseilles and who, almost without breathing, will still fight as far as Toulouse, as far as Bordeaux, as far as Nantes – and who will have to fight a last battle on the banks of
