Cycling / Moniteur National / Daniel Clément / ACBB Lot on t - Lot 77

Cycling / Moniteur National / Daniel Clément / ACBB Lot on the unforgettable Daniel Clément (1916-1997) including: - 4 medals: 1st prize Breaststroke competition to Daniel Clément (Ligue Maritime et Coloniale, round medal, diam: 4cm) / 3 square medals with bélière, years 36-38, rewarding an ACBB champion (2,5x2,5) - 9 photos of Daniel Clément : with Antonin Magne, in the army, in action, champions - Invitation, for the 60th anniversary of the ACBB, drawing by Faizant - 2 rare booklets on the history of the pedaling machine: 1858, cycles Hergé, and D'hier à aujourd'hui, Condensé de l'histoire de la bicyclette (couv. by R. Rebour) - Correspondence, envelopes (to the Moniteur national), book dedications, some signatures are recognizable (Pigois, Lerousseau, de Mondenard, Bailly, Neel, Delore, Jean-Guy Modin) - Blank headed paper from the 1964 Mondial - 5 small fabric cycling crests (Tahiti, Guadeloupe, Quebec, St Pierre). Moving file on the unforgettable Daniel Clément, a beacon and locomotive of amateur cycling. In turn champion of the ACBB in 1936, inventor of pedaling systems, pedagogue, trainer, instructor and national coach between 1943 and 1982, Daniel was also the author of some fine and authoritative technical books. Jean-Guy Modin, another great forgotten figure, dubbed him "the gardener of cycling", and it was aptly so, for he gave thousands of pedal cyclists their first taste of cycling. A wet wink to a benefactor of pedaling humanity