In the second stage, when the touriste-routiers started 10 minutes later than the national teams, Bulla overtook the national teams, won the stage and took the lead, the only time in history that a touriste-routier was leading the Tour de France.

[6] After the fifth stage, Charles Pélissier and Rafaele di Paco shared the lead, thanks to the time bonus.

[5] After the seventh stage, the race was still completely open: the first 30 cyclists in the general classification were within 10 minutes of each other.

In the next stage, a large group finished together, and Magne was still leading the race with Pesenti as his closest competitor.

Magne was not sure if he would win the race, because that stage would be over cobbles, on which the Belgian cyclists were considered experts.

The night before the stage, Magne could not sleep, and his roommate Leducq suggested that he could read some fan mail.

Magne considered reading fan mail before the race was over as giving bad luck, but one oversized letter made him curious.

[8] Magne opened it, and read a letter from a fan who claimed that Belgian cyclist Gaston Rebry (who had won the 1931 Paris–Roubaix race over the same cobbles) had written to his mother that he was planning to attack on the penultimate stage, together with Jef Demuysere.

Leducq thought the letter was a joke, but Magne did not take the risk and told his teammates to stay close to Rebry and Demuysere.

[3] The organisers, from the newspaper l'Auto, named a meilleur grimpeur (best climber), an unofficial precursor to the modern King of the Mountains competition.

[16] After the Tour de France was over, the winner Antonin Magne was so tired that he had to rest for several weeks.