Louis Trousselier

Louis Trousselier (1881 to 1939) was a French racing cyclist from Paris, nicknamed Trou-Trou, who won the 1905 Tour de France. He came from a wealthy family that ran a flower business in central Paris, and the Tour organiser Henri Desgrange took to calling him the florist. He rode the 1900 Summer Olympics, where he took the bronze medal in the points race, and then turned professional. In 1905 he won both the Tour de France, taking five stages, and Paris-Roubaix. He finished third in the 1906 Tour and won 13 Tour stages across his career. His other major wins included Paris-Rennes in 1902, Paris-Tourcoing in 1906 and Bordeaux-Paris in 1908, and he became a long-distance specialist. He stopped racing just before the First World War and took over the family business, and he died in Paris in 1939.