On 18 November 1987, Jacques Anquetil left in his race against death. Defeated by cancer, and sang tohalla threw the other Jacques, Jacques Brel, just before succumbing, at about the same age, same implacable evil.
Jacques Anquetil was turning 54, and true to his legend, was dismissed with a trick it loaded fine irony, sharp and penetrating vision which accompanied him throughout his brilliant career of a champion. Just hours before he died, he would say to André Boucher, his first mentor, his second father, André Remember, I told you never die of cancer ... well, he was right, I have two.
The Norman Jacques Anquetil, who was also known by the nicknames of "Maître Jacques" or "Monsieur Chrono", was born in Mont Saint AIQUA (France) on January 8, 1934. Son of a farmer, when in 1952 by a team sheet aficionado, his father gives him permission on condition that won money, and if not, would have to go "to collect strawberries" with him. And well he won. And despite his precocity and his inexperience, surprising everyone, thus win his first French championship trial, amateur level, where there was not yet come of age. It was professional from 1954 to 1967 and the first year and won the Grand Prix of Nations (trial) taking more than 6 min, the second.
Despite coaching little, not watch your diet, and was even 
addicted to champagne, its successes happened very fast: in 1956 set the hour record at 46.159 km, which sat the bases to start an unstoppable race which had its first milestone in its debut in the Tour in 1957, will win cycling race with great superiority. Featured
addicted to champagne, its successes happened very fast: in 1956 set the hour record at 46.159 km, which sat the bases to start an unstoppable race which had its first milestone in its debut in the Tour in 1957, will win cycling race with great superiority. Featured trial specialist because of her figure aerodynamics on the bike and almost perfect ride, Anquetil also stood by his intelligence career, what to maximize their capabilities. This, together with the elegance of the bicycle, which never decomposed a glimpse of his figure or his opponents let the bad moments that certainly happened, brought him to become the first rider in history to victory in five Tours. Also won two Giros in Italy (he was the first Frenchman to win in the round transalpina) at 1,960 and 1,964, season in which he won the double: Giro and Tour. A year before he got another double, after winning the Tour and the Vuelta.
the Wall of Anquetil
always believed that the slut caught by Jacques Anquetil, during the ascent to Envalira in the Tour of 1964, the last of his five victories, was due to his presence a banque 
Ete organized by Radio Andorra in the rest day.
Indeed, Anquetil made history for both its hegemony on the bike as his disorderly life. As Geminiani wrote in his memoirs, he could in front of a buffet of "stalling the cheeks and lift his elbow," as his motto was that "to be good on the bike had to be good at the table and happy in life ". Anquetil married woman who had been his physician, the beautiful Janine. As he could not bear him children, Janine was offered the chance of having the daughter of his first marriage. And finally, Anquetil fell in love with the girlfriend of the son of Janine. Awesome.
But at the banquet just tried Andorra bite. Your slut in Envalira, which nearly cost him the Tour, was due to concerns that had the cyclist had made the prediction that the magician Belline in the daily France-Soir, that Anquetil would perish in the course of the 14 stage 1964 between Andorra and Toulouse. So caught the Wall. Geminiani did not react until he shouted from the car: "Jacques, if you have to die, drop dead already, but not before the sag wagon." Soon after, caught a Poulidor, his great rival, and saved the Tour.
Ete organized by Radio Andorra in the rest day. Indeed, Anquetil made history for both its hegemony on the bike as his disorderly life. As Geminiani wrote in his memoirs, he could in front of a buffet of "stalling the cheeks and lift his elbow," as his motto was that "to be good on the bike had to be good at the table and happy in life ". Anquetil married woman who had been his physician, the beautiful Janine. As he could not bear him children, Janine was offered the chance of having the daughter of his first marriage. And finally, Anquetil fell in love with the girlfriend of the son of Janine. Awesome.
But at the banquet just tried Andorra bite. Your slut in Envalira, which nearly cost him the Tour, was due to concerns that had the cyclist had made the prediction that the magician Belline in the daily France-Soir, that Anquetil would perish in the course of the 14 stage 1964 between Andorra and Toulouse. So caught the Wall. Geminiani did not react until he shouted from the car: "Jacques, if you have to die, drop dead already, but not before the sag wagon." Soon after, caught a Poulidor, his great rival, and saved the Tour.
ALL FOR ONE is the daughter of Annie Sophie Anquetil and daughter and granddaughter of the famous French cyclist Jacques Anquetil. A situation known, and consented to by the book just published by Sophie-by this strange family that was organized as a harem and also included the rider's daughter, with whom he had another son before he died. Clear?
This is the story of a girl who was fathered by her grandfather, grandmother of the wife, mother is the daughter of his grandmother and brother to his own cousin. Complicated? The girl has now thirty-five years, is called Sophie and wrote a book, "Pour l'amour de Jacques. It was the Frenchman Jacques Anquetil, a glory of world cycling, while d
ueño y señor de su harén en Normandía, padre atento, devorador de manjares, bígamo, amante de sus fiestas, de sus amigos y de las mujeres. El tuvo tres. Respectivamente y por turno: madre, hija y nuera.
Sophie habla de “una magnífica historia de amor” de la que siempre se sintió “orgullosa y admirada”, donde ella fue “el centro de interés” de un “amor profundo” y de una familia donde “todo se compartía”. Hay que entender que el clan Anquetil vivió bajo el lema de los mosqueteros: uno para todas y todas para uno. Su padre fue un héroe dominador, tanto en su vida profesional como privada. Ganó todos los premios posibles cycling, collected world titles effortlessly possessed all the women of his clan. He always knew he would go far, that would make money and that the family would be his kingdom. A kingdom that was so sheltered as a child on his birthday. In 1969 Jacques Anquetil
retired in full glory. It was a sort of demigod in his country, France, but never managed to conquer the hearts of the people. A hard, dry, easy to admire but hard to love. Too blond, too calculating, cold-eyed and distant.
In 1954, after 20 years as a star was dedicated. His friendship with his personal physician, a pioneer of sports medicine, will convulse the lives of both. After being asked everyday to spend weekends with the family doctor, Jacques appropriates-or home-with the doctor's wife, Nanou. The divorced couple's children, Annie (8) and Alain (6), decide to follow and the poor doctor will not want to see them no more or hologram.
After more than a decade installed in the castle where seven hundred hectares cultivated Anquetil Nanou reigned, the rider's desire to have children of their own blood kicks the table. Nanou has tubes tied and do not want another operation. What to do? The solution is called Annie, the daughter of his wife who known and raising the age of eight. At twenty is an attractive young woman and adores his champion.
"For (my dad) to stay home, Nanou will offer his own daughter. They played with fire, "Sophie recognize. And Annie adds: "I am not a victim, I also played with fire." "It was an emotional manipulation," says Sophie, "my father was like the prince of the fairy tale and my mother thought of providing pleasure to both." To explain, Nanou prefers to speak of a decision taken by the "basic cell of the family: my husband, my children and me." This particular surrogate
you able to choose? Could it have said no to the proposal of his own mother? "Jacques was a charismatic despot, subtle, he never imposed anything. To me, "continued Annie, no one asked me what I thought. Say you left me free to do what they wanted me to do. It was like a dictator but we loved dearly. That changes everything. "Anquetil in the sultanate was only free to choose what strings attached. The women were his property and he is personally responsible for your care.
"In the book, when you talk of the order that you did to your mother-Annie-recognizing that" it was an order, "but you do not mind the idea. Why Why?
"On the one hand, they are my parents and, on the other, my mother was in love with him and felt a great admiration for the couple. Also, my dad was very particular almost always get what he wanted without formulating it directly. Annie
acknowledges that when his mother came to my room to explain that I had to give him a son Jacques, I do not know what I thought, I was stunned. I was part of Anquetil universe where the laws did not apply outside world, but disappeared before the undisputed leader. And then I found myself in bed with the sacred mission of procreation, compared to an event that completely beyond me. "
- Love justifies everything?
"If mutual and not forced, yes," answered Sophie, the daughter of that closure.
The girl is the meeting point of all. To the outside world, she is the daughter of Jacques and Nanou. Although So-Phie says he knows the truth all along. "Certainly," says Annie-Sophie was first and foremost the daughter of the clan before mine. "" I was always happy to have two mothers and a father so extraordinary, "said Sophie, with the pride of the elect.
At night, each room of the chateau Anquetil lets play the game of perpetual beginning. In Annie's room, the youngest and favorite for 12 years, enjoys feeling again. Then he goes to meet Nanou, his wife, Annie's mother, the grandmother of her daughter. And he sleeps clinging to the lightness of the known. Sophie does the reverse route. He sleeps in the arms of her grandmother, then exile in his mother's room.
However, life does not circulate freely in the chateau, there are unwritten rules, codes and rituals to perform. This is how, tired of witnessing the same show for twelve years, Annie decides one day emancipating. Anquetil not support the idea that the youngest of her Geisha split and the threat to something that is not going to like it, change it to Dominique.
Dominique is the wife of Alain Annie's brother, whom Jacques also raised as his own son. A while sharing the same household. Of this latter union, born Christophe (both, brother and cousin Sophie). Jacques Anquetil soon die, "in 1987 - at age 53.
Listening to Sophie, one can not help thinking about the trauma. "Trauma? What trauma? Sophie radiates the joy of living, is a militant who claims this particular family.
- What is it you admire in your father in this story?
"That was all done without lies and respect for others. Fijate today all those men who have a double life, is much worse. Test that only about love is that today we all want and see.
- Would you live with two men, father and son or husband and lover?
"I live with one man and is already complicated enough. But why not? He says and bursts into laughter.
This is the story of a girl who was fathered by her grandfather, grandmother of the wife, mother is the daughter of his grandmother and brother to his own cousin. Complicated? The girl has now thirty-five years, is called Sophie and wrote a book, "Pour l'amour de Jacques. It was the Frenchman Jacques Anquetil, a glory of world cycling, while d
ueño y señor de su harén en Normandía, padre atento, devorador de manjares, bígamo, amante de sus fiestas, de sus amigos y de las mujeres. El tuvo tres. Respectivamente y por turno: madre, hija y nuera. Sophie habla de “una magnífica historia de amor” de la que siempre se sintió “orgullosa y admirada”, donde ella fue “el centro de interés” de un “amor profundo” y de una familia donde “todo se compartía”. Hay que entender que el clan Anquetil vivió bajo el lema de los mosqueteros: uno para todas y todas para uno. Su padre fue un héroe dominador, tanto en su vida profesional como privada. Ganó todos los premios posibles cycling, collected world titles effortlessly possessed all the women of his clan. He always knew he would go far, that would make money and that the family would be his kingdom. A kingdom that was so sheltered as a child on his birthday. In 1969 Jacques Anquetil
retired in full glory. It was a sort of demigod in his country, France, but never managed to conquer the hearts of the people. A hard, dry, easy to admire but hard to love. Too blond, too calculating, cold-eyed and distant.
In 1954, after 20 years as a star was dedicated. His friendship with his personal physician, a pioneer of sports medicine, will convulse the lives of both. After being asked everyday to spend weekends with the family doctor, Jacques appropriates-or home-with the doctor's wife, Nanou. The divorced couple's children, Annie (8) and Alain (6), decide to follow and the poor doctor will not want to see them no more or hologram.
After more than a decade installed in the castle where seven hundred hectares cultivated Anquetil Nanou reigned, the rider's desire to have children of their own blood kicks the table. Nanou has tubes tied and do not want another operation. What to do? The solution is called Annie, the daughter of his wife who known and raising the age of eight. At twenty is an attractive young woman and adores his champion.
"For (my dad) to stay home, Nanou will offer his own daughter. They played with fire, "Sophie recognize. And Annie adds: "I am not a victim, I also played with fire." "It was an emotional manipulation," says Sophie, "my father was like the prince of the fairy tale and my mother thought of providing pleasure to both." To explain, Nanou prefers to speak of a decision taken by the "basic cell of the family: my husband, my children and me." This particular surrogate
you able to choose? Could it have said no to the proposal of his own mother? "Jacques was a charismatic despot, subtle, he never imposed anything. To me, "continued Annie, no one asked me what I thought. Say you left me free to do what they wanted me to do. It was like a dictator but we loved dearly. That changes everything. "Anquetil in the sultanate was only free to choose what strings attached. The women were his property and he is personally responsible for your care.
"In the book, when you talk of the order that you did to your mother-Annie-recognizing that" it was an order, "but you do not mind the idea. Why Why?
"On the one hand, they are my parents and, on the other, my mother was in love with him and felt a great admiration for the couple. Also, my dad was very particular almost always get what he wanted without formulating it directly. Annie
acknowledges that when his mother came to my room to explain that I had to give him a son Jacques, I do not know what I thought, I was stunned. I was part of Anquetil universe where the laws did not apply outside world, but disappeared before the undisputed leader. And then I found myself in bed with the sacred mission of procreation, compared to an event that completely beyond me. "
- Love justifies everything?
"If mutual and not forced, yes," answered Sophie, the daughter of that closure.
The girl is the meeting point of all. To the outside world, she is the daughter of Jacques and Nanou. Although So-Phie says he knows the truth all along. "Certainly," says Annie-Sophie was first and foremost the daughter of the clan before mine. "" I was always happy to have two mothers and a father so extraordinary, "said Sophie, with the pride of the elect.
At night, each room of the chateau Anquetil lets play the game of perpetual beginning. In Annie's room, the youngest and favorite for 12 years, enjoys feeling again. Then he goes to meet Nanou, his wife, Annie's mother, the grandmother of her daughter. And he sleeps clinging to the lightness of the known. Sophie does the reverse route. He sleeps in the arms of her grandmother, then exile in his mother's room.
However, life does not circulate freely in the chateau, there are unwritten rules, codes and rituals to perform. This is how, tired of witnessing the same show for twelve years, Annie decides one day emancipating. Anquetil not support the idea that the youngest of her Geisha split and the threat to something that is not going to like it, change it to Dominique.
Dominique is the wife of Alain Annie's brother, whom Jacques also raised as his own son. A while sharing the same household. Of this latter union, born Christophe (both, brother and cousin Sophie). Jacques Anquetil soon die, "in 1987 - at age 53.
Listening to Sophie, one can not help thinking about the trauma. "Trauma? What trauma? Sophie radiates the joy of living, is a militant who claims this particular family.
- What is it you admire in your father in this story?
"That was all done without lies and respect for others. Fijate today all those men who have a double life, is much worse. Test that only about love is that today we all want and see.
- Would you live with two men, father and son or husband and lover?
"I live with one man and is already complicated enough. But why not? He says and bursts into laughter.
