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hen journalist Albert Londres pushed his way through the throng and sat down with the Pélissier brothers, Henri and Francis, in the Café de la Gare in Coutances in June 1924, he realised he had a scoop. Exhausted, disenchanted and enraged with Tour de France organiser Henri Desgrange, the Pélissiers slugged hot chocolate and poured their hearts out, railing against the inhumanity of

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