Paul Bourillon

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Paul Bourillon (1903)
Bourillon in Offenbach's Orpheus in the underworld . Drawing by Yves Marevéry

Pierre Ernest Paul Bourillon , also Bourrillon , (born May 13, 1877 in Marmande near Bordeaux , † April 14, 1942 ibid) was a French cyclist and opera singer .

Athletic career

Paul Bourillon, a “first generation” cyclist, was the son of the bicycle dealer Guillaume Bour (r) illon (* 1845) and his wife Marie, née Jantien (* 1851). Both parents died in April 1915.

Bourillon grew up in Marmande in the south of France and initially competed successfully in junior races in his home country. In 1895 he had his first successes on a national level when he finished second in the sprint classics Grand Prix de Paris and Grand Prix de l'UVF third. In 1896 he was world champion in track sprint and British champion over 15 miles in Copenhagen , in 1897 and 1899 French champion in sprint. In 1898 he won the Grand Prix de Paris ; this year alone he achieved 62 victories on various tracks across Europe and only failed to win one race when he finished second. In that year the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) gave its permission for a comparison match with the world champion of the amateurs, the German Paul Albert . The race took place in Hanover , after three runs Bourillon won, who Albert later described as his strongest opponent.

Bourillon was a very temperamental man. When the Hamburg Grand Prix was held in 1898, the arbitral tribunal declared the German Willy Arend the winner over Bourillon, who felt he was being disadvantaged. When Arend drove the lap of honor, the French wrested the prize from the German and stepped on it with his feet. This caused a storm of indignation that could only be pacified with the help of the police. Bourillon was then closed for the remainder of the season for the German cycle tracks.

Bourillon was one of the first racers to be sponsored by a bicycle company ( Peugeot ), which the company advertised extensively. He was considered arrogant and haughty and enjoyed public attention, which is why he was not very popular with viewers. In 1899 he had a serious fall on the Montluçon cycle track , after which he ended his career as an athlete.

In 1898 Bourillon, who worked as a salesman for his father, got him to build a small wooden racing track 310 meters long in Marmande.

Career as a singer

Bourillon took singing lessons while he was still active as a cyclist. In 1902 he had his first appearance as a singer in Nantes in the opera Faust . He sang at the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen , at the Bordeaux Opera (as first tenor in 1904) and from 1908 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris . In 1910 he toured the United States . In April 1915 he appeared in Monte-Carlo , where he sang the title role in the operetta Hans, le joueur de flûte , under the direction of the composer Louis Ganne .

In 1935, Bourillon founded a company in his hometown to build another cycling track . In 1938 the train that bore his name was sold and rebuilt in Condom , later in Nice .

Honors

On January 16, 1935, Paul Bourillon was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . The "Allée Paul Bourillon" was named after him in the inner city of his hometown Marmande.

Works

  • Mes souvenirs. Lafitte, Paris 1913.

literature

  • Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume. Short biographies. Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937.

Web links

Commons : Paul Bourillon  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bourrillon Paul. In: artlyriquefr.fr. Retrieved December 23, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c d Paul Bourillon. In: lepetitbraquet.fr. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Il ya 80 Ans naissait le Velodrome de Marmande. In: sudgirondecyclisme.fr. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 8/1953 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1953, p. 15 .
  5. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 1/2/1948 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1948, p. 2 .
  6. ^ Richard Moore: Bike !. The Miegunyah Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-522-86183-9 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  7. ↑ (Wiener) Sporttagblatt , January 31, 1935, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Bourillon, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourrillon, Paul (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Marmande near Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1942
Place of death Marmande near Bordeaux