"Championnat de France des Sociétés"?
Does this mean that there was a French national championship
for amateur, company sponsored teams? Why was that sort of
thing abandoned? Because the amateur associations/federations
were supposed to fill this responsibilty?
Au revoir,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> Two views from the 1932 "Championnat de France des Sociétés.
> Top
> photo: Team A.C. Boulogne-Billancourt (left) crosses paths
> with team
> C.S.International on a rainy mont Saint-Eloi. Bottom photo:
> The
> victorious C.S.I. team, from left to right, Fernand
> Mithouard, Jean
> Noret, Parizet, and Pierre Jaminet. On the right, teammate
> Bono, winner
> of the French championship for amateurs and independents.
> Mithouard
> went on to race professionally from 1932 through 1947. Jean
> Noret raced
> pro from 1933 through 1939. Jaminet also went on to the pro
> ranks,
> winning the 1938 Critérium International. From "l'Intran
> Match"
> No.315, 20 September 1932.
>
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> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio
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