Cycling / Tour / Henri Desgrange / Jarry Lot of around forty - Lot 66

Cycling / Tour / Henri Desgrange / Jarry Lot of around forty items on Henri Desgrange (1865-1940), the father of the Tour, including: - Revue Subsidia Pataphysica, n°19, devoted to cycling and Jarry, Desgrange and the Tour , 1973, 104 pages, 21x12. Une mine à ciel ouvert - 2 typed letters signed by Henri Desgrange, giving an idea of his schedule (7 banquets or lunches in 10 days) and his character, "L'Auto" letterhead - Payment note signed Desgrange with rare oval newspaper stamp, 1931 - 5 press photos from 1930 to 39, where he competed in the Cross des Ancêtres (one or two sublime ones, 32 and 39 (13x18) - 8 press photos (1930s), in action on the Tour, at the start, with local organizers, and especially with champions (Speicher, Leducq, Aerts, Le Calvez, Maréchal (several large formats) - Rare photo, arrival in the rain, 1910s, the bearded boss at a checkpoint, with Desmarest (missing upper left corner), 18x13 - "Paris-Soir" photo, Tour 38, Desgrange congratulates the Maillot Jaune, Félicien Vervaecke, as Karel Steyaert looks on (15x20) - Portrait of the boss in 1936, the illness is there, but the eagle eye remains (15x10) - 3 reprints of childhood photos, on one he's riding a tricycle, on the other he's with his twin brother Georges (around age 10), and finally the child from Speicher makes him smile - 7 philatelic souvenirs: 3 max cards on his tricycle in 1895 (cachets Clermont-St Etienne, 1980, 3 illustrated envelopes (67th Tour, 1980, with his portrait as a Tribute cachet), with a separate Large portrait on paper - 11 prints from the years 27, racing, resting in Biarritz