Birth of Geo Lefevre
Birth of Geo Lefevre
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Geo Lefevre Biography and Timeline
Follow Geo Lefevre through 15 dated historical records for France.
Geo Lefevre, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
15Distinct records
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1887–1961Years on this page
1887
1902
Tour de France
LAuto announces the 1st Tour de France
Tour de France
All the major towns are begging for cycle races, and they are bound to go along with the idea."
Tour de France
Henri Desgrange then discussed it after lunch at what is now the TGI Friday bar in Montmartre in Paris.
Tour de France
Suggests "a several-day race, longer than anything now going on, something more on the order of a track six day race, only this time on the road.
Tour de France
The idea for a round stage race came from LAutos chief cycling journalist, 26-year-old George's Lefevre, he and the editor.
1903
Tour de France
Geo Lefevre surveys the 1st Tour de France route and on 19 January 1903, just four days after losing the plagiarism suit to Giffard, Desgrange announced the race on the pages of the newly-christened L'Auto.
Tour de France
The Tour de France is announced for the 1st time.
Tour de France
The race was advertised as "the greatest cycling trial in the entire world.."
Tour de France
The route would last more than a month and run from Paris through Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Nantes before returning to Paris.
Tour de France
Promotion of the Tour de France proved a great success for the LAuto newspaper. Circulation leapt from 25,000 before the Tour to 65,000 after it. Follows the race as best he could, sometimes riding in the bunch on his bicycle, then catching a train to go ahead to see to the next checkpoint - a one-man, roving commissaire, organiser and reporter
Tour de France
Follows the race as best he could, sometimes riding in the bunch on his bicycle, then catching a train to go ahead to see to the next checkpoint - a one-man, roving commissaire, organiser and reporter.
Tour de France
Promotion of the Tour de France proved a great success for the LAuto newspaper. Circulation leapt from 25,000 before the Tour to 65,000 after it.
Tour de France
Suggests the idea for the Tour de France at a meeting with Henri Desgrange, editor of the daily newspaper LAuto as a way to boost circulation. Desgrange recruited Lefevre from the rival daily sports paper, Le Velo, to work as his rugby and cycling correspondent
1961
Death of Geo Lefevre
Death of Geo Lefevre
Records, sources and methodology
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