Eloi Tassin

Éloi Tassin was a French professional road bicycle racer, born on 6 June 1912 and died on 17 August 1977. He won a stage of the 1939 Tour de France and another stage of the 1947 Tour de France, eight years apart. His memory is kept alive locally: an avenue in Nantes, the Allée Éloi Tassin, is named after him, and a day in his honour was held at Vay on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. He is therefore recorded as a rider whose Tour de France stage victories came before and after the Second World War, and who is still commemorated at Vay and in Nantes.