Abstract
This article analyzes the models of masculinity evident in the representationof cycling in France from 1903 to 1939. In France, the interwar yearswere a period in which sporting practices were democratized and gendernorms shifted. Sports writing, present in numerous publications at the time,recognized sporting arenas (including velodromes and the roads of theTour de France) as sites for the molding of new models of virility. Morespecifically, literary evocations of cycling dwelled on those events consideredto constitute notable feats and showcase “surhommes”: the Tour deFrance (1903) and the Paris Six-Day race (1913) were the source of abundantliterary production, exemplified by Albert Londres’ Tour de France, tour desouffrance (1924), Andre Reuze’s Tour de souffrance (1925), and AlphonseBauge’s Verites, anecdotes et reflexions sur les courses cyclistes et sur lescoureurs (1925). Through a literary study of essentially popular novels, thethemes of masculinity in the world of cycling are highlighted: model...
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