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    1911 ParisRoubaix was the 16th edition of the ParisRoubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 16 April 1911 and...
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  • ParisRoubaix [pa.ʁi.ʁu.bɛ] is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border...
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    Roubaix (French: [ʁubɛ] or [ʁube]; Dutch: Robaais; West Flemish: Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan...
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  • The 1912 ParisRoubaix was the 17th edition of the ParisRoubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 7 April 1912...
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    The 2009 ParisRoubaix was the 107th running of the ParisRoubaix single-day cycling race, often known as the Hell of the North. It was held on 12 April...
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  • Roubaix football club formed. 1896 ParisRoubaix bicycle race begins. Population: 124,661. 1906 - Population: 110,055. 1909 – Line R, Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing...
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  • 000 for the time from Paris to Brussels, and £600 for the Utrecht-Brussels leg). Brussels-Roubaix 80 km (50 mi): Prize £600 Roubaix-Calais: Prize £400 Calais-London...
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    The 1910 ParisRoubaix was the 15th edition of the ParisRoubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single day event was held on 27 March 1910...
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  • - European edition - Paris. Vol. 27, no. 164. 6 January 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 2 May 2023. "Au Stadium de Roubaix" [At the Roubaix Stadium]. L'Auto-Vélo...
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    Octave Lapize (category Cyclists from Paris)
    1909 ParisRoubaix, 1st Place 1910 Tour de France - 1st Overall and 4 stage wins (Stage 5, 9, 10, 14) ParisRoubaix, 1st Place 1911 ParisRoubaix, 1st...
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  • Stage 1 Tour of Belgium 6th ParisRoubaix 1911 1st Overall Tour of Belgium 1st Stages 2, 3, 5, 6 & 7 5th ParisRoubaix 9th Paris–Tours 1912 1st Six Days of...
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    Théodore Vienne (category ParisRoubaix)
    Roubaix who with Maurice Perez founded the ParisRoubaix cycle race in 1896 (One of the oldest cycle races in the world.). Vienne was born in Roubaix...
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    1910 1st Paris–Menin 2nd ParisRoubaix 3rd Paris–Brussels 4th Overall Tour de France 1911 2nd Paris–Tours 3rd Milan–San Remo 3rd ParisRoubaix 3rd Giro...
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  • before RC Roubaix took control of the league becoming the first French club to win three straight titles beginning in 1902. Following Roubaix's success...
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    Jean Prouvost (category Paris Match writers)
    Prouvost. Prouvost instead borrowed one million francs and in 1911 started La Lainière de Roubaix, a textile company that quickly became a leader in the European...
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    Goyard (category Companies based in Paris)
    French trunk and leather goods maker established in 1792 as Maison Martin in Paris; the company also operated as Maison Morel, before becoming Maison Goyard...
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    1896 Paris-Le Mans Paris-Mons Liège-Thuin 3rd ParisRoubaix 1897 ParisRoubaix Paris-Royan Paris-Cabourg Tourcoing-Béthune-Tourcoing 1898 ParisRoubaix...
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    Faber won 19 Tour de France stages, Paris–Brussels, Bordeaux–Paris, Sedan-Brussels, Paris–Tours twice, ParisRoubaix and the Giro di Lombardia. Faber joined...
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    Paul Deschanel (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    at Marseille on 26 October 1896, at Carmaux on 27 December 1896, and at Roubaix on 10 April 1897, were triumphs of clear and eloquent exposition of the...
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    stages and finished second in the 1905 Tour de France. He also won ParisRoubaix twice, in 1903 and 1904. His elder brother Francois was also a racing...
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    Au Vélodrome (category 1911 paintings)
    theorist Jean Metzinger. The work illustrates the final meters of the ParisRoubaix race, and portrays its 1912 winner Charles Crupelandt. Metzinger's painting...
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    Compiègne (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    of Compiègne 1977 - The starting location of the ParisRoubaix bicycle race was changed from Paris to Compiègne. Compiègne is the central commune of...
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    in 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1975. On 17 April 1949, at the day of 47th ParisRoubaix race edition, the term monument appeared for the first time in road...
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    Henri Carette (category People from Roubaix)
    June 1911 in Paris) was a French politician. He was a member of the general council of the department of Nord and the first socialist mayor of Roubaix. Carette...
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    Albert Champion (cyclist) (category Cyclists from Paris)
    French track bicycle racer and later an industrialist who won the 1899 ParisRoubaix. In 1905 he incorporated the Albert Champion Company in Boston to make...
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    prestige, the uniqueness of its parcours sometimes drawing comparison with Paris-Roubaix. First held in 2007. Milano–Torino – first run in 1876, the race had...
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    Lille (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    more fully. The city was known for its cotton while the nearby towns of Roubaix and Tourcoing worked wool. Leisure activities were thoroughly organised...
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    road bicycle racer. His most notable achievement in cycling is winning ParisRoubaix in 2004. Born in Linköping, Östergötland Bäckstedt began as a skier...
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    classic ParisRoubaix, riding for the Mapei cycling team. In 1993 he was beaten on the line by Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle in an exciting ParisRoubaix finale...
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  • of the Spring Classics with a date towards the end of April, between ParisRoubaix and Gent–Wevelgem. The event lost its prestige during the 1960s when...
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