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| Full name | Jules Merviel | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 September 1906 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 September 1976 (aged 69) Toulon, France | ||||||||||||||
| Cycling career | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| Paris–Tours (1933) One stage Tour de France (1930) | |||||||||||||||
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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.