[3] Étoile des deux lacs (EDL) was founded in 1898,[1][2][4] by Father Abbé Biron, as the football team of the parish of Saint-Honoré d'Eylau in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

[4] The EDL, which wore a garnet jersey with a blue star, played on the pitch in La Muette, located near the two lakes of the Bois de Boulogne, hence the club's name.

[8] He even served as the club's secretary, having an office at rue Thomas d'Aquin, the address of the headquarters of FGSPF, from which he published several advertisements in the French newspaper L'Auto (the predecessor of L'Équipe), where he requested, for instance, friendly matches.

[8] In January 1906, the FGSPF organized a sort of ultra-trail in which one of EDL's members Gaston Brébion totaled 100 points, meaning that he was a complete all-round athlete.

[3][11] In 1907, Simon's CFI organized its inaugural championship, the so-called Trophée de France, which pits the champions of each federation that makes up the CFI against each other at the end of the season, and its inaugural edition in 1907 was won by EDL, the champions of the FGSPF, after claiming an 8–3 victory over the Bordeaux-based FC Simiotin, winners of the Amateur Athletic Federation (FAA), and their reward was a trophy that had been donated by Pierre de Coubertin.