[1] The winner was German Josef Fischer who received 1.000 francs for the win, a considerable sum of money at the time.

Paul Rousseau, the director of Le Vélo, agreed to start the race outside the paper's offices in Paris.

[8] As many as half the riders who were supposed to ride stayed in bed, including Henri Desgrange, who later organised the first Tour de France.

Notably, the winner of that first Tour de France, Maurice Garin, did start the race, finished third and went on to win the following two editions in subsequent years.

[7][9] The race was full of incidents, Welshman Arthur Linton, who finished fourth, crashed six times, once after hitting a dog.