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0:00 Intro
1:14 Innovation
3:32 Dreyfus affair
Pier Jafar is one of the most influential figures in the history and development of motor racing if you heard of him I’d presume not but that’s what you’re here for [Music] right P jaar was born in the 1st of May 1853 as the son of a lawyer and the mayor of his home con Fontan as a result of this they were pretty well off which allows youa to get educated at the L Pier Corel in the ru as well as the L Charon in the mar District at the age of 17 he puts his education on PO to join the military but soon returned to studying this time in Duo where he gained a University degree at the age of 18 following his father’s death in 1872 Jafar moved to Paris to pursue his dream of Journalism and he landed a job at Leos he jumped between newspapers over the next few years before settling at leigo where he made his name reporting on things such as the arrival of the British Fleet at Alexandria he spent 9 years there but when iolite AUST marinoni requested he reorganized The Newsroom of joural he jumped ship and became Chief correspondent in 1887 under the alliance John Sant around this time Sports were beginning to develop the M On’s being cycling in athletics with the creation of the re prep bicycle one similar to those used today and the creation of Lau athletic by Pier de ketan who would go on to found the modern Olympic movement these were opportunities in waiting for newspapers to report on but with lovu athletic there was already an application covering Sports so what would they do well Jaa had the great idea to create their own race of course he was started in 1891 with a par bre Paris bicycle race or epev a test to the bicycle’s reliability and the rider’s endurance initially entrance was free but the response to the article was promoting it was so profound that you had to start charging five Fon entrance and 280 made it to the starting line 99 would finish with sha ton leading the pack after 71 hours and 22 minutes passing the sleeping G Laval during the final night the race was a roaring success for the joural and even coined a new turn for bicycle Lati which is still used today so they were itching to create something similar such as a foot race the very next year jar would organized a foot race from Paris to bfor over 380 km away over 1,100 competitors registered and over 800 started from the offices of Le Journal newspaper circulation dramatically increased as the French public followed the progress of the race participants 380 of whom completed the course in under 10 days led by conson Ramos in 100 hours and 5 minutes both events had been incredible in the establishment of Lau Journal as one of the leading papers in the world and they were once again looking to create another event when jar stumbled across car racing it was very much in its infancy with no official races ever to know and with cars particularly in France very much in their developmental stages and jar being the proud Frenchman he was he attempted to get France ahead of the curve the paper promoted it as Le janal competition for Horseless carriages with the focus not being on the fastest car but that which was not dangerous easy to drive and cheap along the journey this objective meant the steam power cars were not eligible for prize money due to needing a stoker 102 people entered with 26 cars actually turning out for the event public interest was high for two main reasons one being the fascinating motor cars and the second being the promotion done in the journal one that was spread amongst the masses jeul Al count Deon would win in his steam powered D on bhon but the pan a and the persio manufacturers shared first prize of 5,000 Fran a life-changing amount of money at the time however it wasn’t just about the money this stimulated an interest in motor racing and Motor Cars in France helping the manufacturers of the front running cars panhard p and Deon bhon G publicity while inadvertently leading to the creation of delaj and Reno over the next few years this interest also led to the FIA and consequently Formula 1 being based in Paris as well as the creation of the French PRI and the for surrounding the 24 hours of Lon shiar will continue his Innovative approach moving to level but organizing the inaugural Paris marathon on behalf of Ley Journal it would be won by Len Hurst a brick ler from England he would write contrary to his role at lell a cycling magazine a thesis in 1889 describing the replacement of the Horse by the bicycle later the Motorcar called lafin dual around this time a political Scandal had broken out surrounding the conviction and life imprisonment of a Jewish French artillery officer called Alfred draus he was convicted of treason for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris however two years later evidence came to lie which incriminated the French Army Major Ferdinand bin Es hatsy as the real traitor this was suppressed and a military Court unanimously acquitted es haty after 2 days however those in the noble angry and a movement of political support for draf began and grew to the point of the case being reopened this was a widespread issue in France however and split the general public jaar insens by the treatment of draus through lello in support which caused major sponsors of the newspaper who were anti- ders to pull out and just to pin the nail in the coffin they decided to open their own rival paper la alto but it was changed to just la alto after a lawsuit Jafar then rang for the constituency of sent in Fier but failed due to his strong opinions on the dra ofair creating powerful enemies for example those at Lao which included Yola Deon the winner of the Parry Ruan race passing out lindu Cheval claiming it was his political program in the meantime a circular Rel ation war broke out between the two papers lll’s answer to this was the second edition of the Parry breast Parry cycle race in 1901 but L’s response would ruin lll DEA who’ moved over from Lavell to loto which suggest a sixday race around France to which Henry deson the editor would reply as I understand it patigo you are suggesting a tour def France and so the tour def France was created and was an overwhelming success and lello disappeared just a year later youa had nowhere to go now but the enemy and he joined Lao in 1904 and as far as I can find stayed there until death in Mason leit in 1922 she’s Legacy is that of a strong willed leftwing journalist who played a role in the creation of Motorsports by creating the first ever motor event as well as inadvertently creating the tour to France thank you very much for watching and I’ll see you again next time goodbye [Music]