ARAGON (Louis).

Lot 283
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ARAGON (Louis).
The Tour de France. P.A.S. "Aragon". S.l.n.d. (summer 1947). Two pages in-4, drawn on the back of pages of headed paper of the daily newspaper ''Le soir'', then twinned with the weekly ''Miroir Sprint'', directed by Georges Pagnoud. Ratures and slight maculations. Article requested by the daily paper to be inserted in its columns: "Le Tour... it's tonight that they leave! All the years of my childhood (I lived in Neuilly) that evening was a fairy tale date... The passage of the competitors with their supporters in the hot night, the kind of great familiarity of the crowd, all this had the character of a summer party beginning... A lesson of national energy, the violent taste of overcoming nature and one's own body, the exaltation of all for the best... which every year shows that France is alive, and that the Tour is indeed the Tour de France". Attached, three short texts also written about the Tour de France addressed to this same daily newspaper by BOURVIL: "As I say in my song of the Tour de France; '' À Bicyclette'', I have never done the Tour de France... but I have done tours, detours, contours... Bourvil's tours if I dare to express myself like that!.... It's silly! Huh!" -
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