André Boucher
André Boucher (5 May 1910, Bernay, Eure – 27 January 1993, Rouen) L'Humanité, France, 29 January 1993 was a French moderate professional racing cyclist and a talented coach who trained the Tour de France winner, Jacques Anquetil, and the world champion, Jean Jourden. He is remembered by a memorial in Rouen. Death and memorial Boucher died when he was 82, in 1993. Jacky Hardy, a Sotteville rider who became a professional and then worked with the Canadian national team in Europe, said: "He was a great man. He was perhaps more of an administrator than a technician but with what we know now about preparation, we can see that what he did wasn't so far from what we do now."Un grand Monsieur. Il était peut être plus dirigeant que technicien mais avec ce qu'on sait maintenant en préparation, on se rend compte qu'on n'était pas si loin de ce qui se fait aujourd'hui." Boucher is remembered by a memorial at the Antenne roundabout, near the Paradis bend on the old Circuit des Essart ...
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Bernay, Eure
Bernay () is a commune in the west of the Eure department in Northern France. In 2012, Bernay was designated one of the French Towns and Lands of Art and History. Geography Bernay is in the valley of the Charentonne, a tributary of the Risle, about west from Évreux. The city is on the border of the Pays d'Ouche and the Lieuvin. Bernay station has rail connections to Caen, Évreux, Paris, Rouen, Deauville and Lisieux. History The name Bernay is rooted in 5th century Roman settlement Brinnacu, from the Latin ''Brinnacum'' ("braided"), reflecting the marshy braided river land that the original settlement was built on.François de Beaurepaire, ''Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure'', éditions Picard, 1981. The city has expanded around the River Charentonne, shielded by the incline to highlands ("les Monts") at the top of the Charentonne valley. The town has grown to encompass a portion of the smaller Cosnier, a tributary of the Charentonne. Between 996 and 10 ...
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