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Moped Racing in Montmartre

Graham Clode

Clipping from La France

Graham sent me the above illustration from the 23rd January 1952 edition of La France, a British paper published for school pupils learning French.  It was still published in the following decade when I was wrestling with Whitmarsh's First French Course.  So, here goes... "Without stopping, a competitor asks the brilliantly uniformed Mayor of Montmartre for a light for his cigi".  Can anyone identify the moped/vélomoteur with its sidecar?

Paul Hornby


First published, June 2002

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