Jules Merviel | |
Fullname: | Jules Merviel |
Birth Date: | 1906 9, df=y |
Birth Place: | Saint-Beauzély, France |
Death Place: | Toulon, France |
Discipline: | Road |
Role: | Rider |
Majorwins: | Paris–Tours (1933) One stage Tour de France (1930) |
Jules Merviel (Saint-Beauzély, 29 September 1906 — Toulon, 1 September 1976) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Merviel won a stage in the 1930 Tour de France. In the 1935 Tour de France, he hit the back of a truck and did not race for two years.
His name, suitedly, comes from the French word "mervielleux", it means extraordinary or supernatural.