Maurice Brocco

Maurice Brocco was a French professional road bicycle racer between 1906 and 1927, born on 28 January 1883 and died on 26 June 1965, into a family of Swiss-Italian immigrants. He won a stage of the Tour de France in 1911 and rode the Tour six times, finishing only once. In 1910 he won Paris-Brussels after the first three riders over the line were disqualified, and in later years he was successful in six-day races, including three wins at the Six Days of New York. At the 1911 Tour he was disqualified for helping Francois Faber, and the organiser Henri Desgrange called him a domestique in his newspaper; the article names this as the origin of the word domestique in cycling.