Touring Club de France

[1][2] Its headquarters sat on the Avenue de la Grande Armée in Paris.

[3] The idea of the Touring Club de France was inspired by the British Cyclists' Touring Club, founded in 1873 and also devoted to cycling, and promoted in France under the impulse of Paul de Vivie.

[4] The Touring Club de France used to award several prizes to support mountain guides fathers of large families.

The recipient of that prize in 1928 was Pierre Mayneris, a mountain guide from Baillestavy, near the Canigou, who received 2400 francs as a support to raise his nine children.

The Brunier Prize was the equivalent for mountain guides living in the French Alps above an altitude of 1000 meters.