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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Tour de France ’53


de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Enjoy Rare Photos of a Sport Spectacle

Remembering the recent 99th Tour de France, LIFE.com offers vintage (and some previously unpublished) photos from the 1953 version of the great contest.

These pictures were taken at a time when most of LIFE’s readers were likely only marginally aware that each summer people rode bikes for a few thousand miles on the mountain roads and through the sunflower fields of France and, occasionally, across the border into other European nations.

Read more: http://life.time.com/culture/tour-de-france-1953-rare-photos/#ixzz224b4zp9b

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