Gaston Bénac

Gaston Bénac , born in 1881 with Castelsarrasin (Tarn-et-Garonne), died in 1968 with Paris, was a Journaliste sporting French. He is regarded as one of the creators of the great sporting report, guided by the passion of the voyage, as much as by that of the champions. Among the latter, they was the players of Rugby (birth obliges!), boxers and the cyclists who drew his attention.

He made initially studies of Right, according to the family wishes, but it is towards sporting journalism that he forked. Initially with the Small Gironde of Bordeaux, it did what make many provincial: it came to Paris. Its feather exerted with the Car , where it was corresponding rugbylistic, then gave articles in Sporting , the Illustration , the Intransigent , and Paris-Midday . It took then the direction of the sporting services of Paris-Evening, of which it accompanied the vertiginous ascencion by pulling in the years 1930. It contribait there by creating the event. It is him and his/her colleague Albert Baker d' Isy who créérent in 1932 the test cyclist the Grand Prix of the Nations. The war made it be folded up with Toulouse, the release made it go up on Paris, where it directed the sporting directions of Résistance , Paris-Press, then France-Evening. Associated with the report cyclist of the Tour de France, its name is also with that of Marcel Cerdan, of which he commented on the championship of the World against American Tony Zale, in 1948.

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biographical note published in Le Monde in 1968.

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