The Bicycle Queen, J. Seray

"Jacques Seray, through text and image, serves as our guide to visit, while humming, the golden age of the Bicycle Queen.
He even gives us two firsts: a cycling discography and filmography that lead us to today's cycling.
Guided tour of cycling in Paris at the end of the 19th ^century , when the capital had nine velodromes, while the Avenue de la Grande-Armée had the air of a permanent cycle fair. When, in the Bois de Boulogne, the Chalets du Cycle brought together all the elegant people… often fresh from the rides of their first pedals.
Very quickly, popular arts seized upon the phenomenon: naive chromos, ditties and cycling humor films lined its enchanted route before celebrating the glory of its champions. And soon the record and the comic strip joined the procession of praises that would even take the lasting form of stone and bronze when it came to marking its memory."

Edition The Bird's Step.

ISBN: 978-2-917971-08-6
160 pages, color, Hardcover 23.5 x 29 cm
publisher price 30 €