Tags: Cyclist.
Henri Pépin (born France 18 November 1864 died Bordeaux 1914) was an affluent French racing cyclist who once hired two riders to escort him leisurely through the Tour de France in which they ate at good restaurants and spent the night in expensive hotels. When he had had enough he paid his assistants – the first domestiques in cycle racing – what they would have earned had they won the Tour and went home by train.
