Pierre Excoffier

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### Biography

Pierre Excoffier was born on 5 October 1894 in Albertville (Savoie), the son of Maxime Excoffier and Josephine Apport. He married Marie Josephine Mollard (1901-1982) on 16 June 1928 in Albertville.

Excoffier was first registered for the Tour de France in 1914 with jersey number 170, but he could not start because he had a serious accident just before leaving for the Parc des Princes. After the First World War in which he served as a soldier, he participated in the Tour again in 1920 (jersey number 156) and 1921 (jersey number 155), giving up in the third stage in 1920 and in the sixth stage in 1921. Except for a seventh place in Lyon-Grenoble-Lyon in 1921, no other results have been found. With results it is also important to pay attention because in the Geneva area there was also a Swiss namesake (Pierre Excoffier) active as an amateur between 1923 and 1927 (a.o. 11th in Circuit Neuchatelois in 1926; 6th in the Swiss championship for amateurs).

In 1940, Pierre Excoffier lived in Saint-Sigismond where he worked as a mechanic. In June 1940, he joined the Resistance in Savoie (RIF - Résistance intérierure française) and was arrested on 1 April 1941 in Saint-Sigismond by the authorities of the Vichy regime. He was successively interned in Fort Barraux (Isère), the Eysses centre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, the Saint-Joseph prison in Grenoble and the Montluc prison in Lyon. Finally, on 18 June 1944, Pierre Excoffier was deported from Compiègne to the Dachau concentration camp (number 73422), where he died on 8 February 1945.

His name is on the Monument de la Résistance in Albertville, a Plaque commémorative 1939-1945 in Albertville and the Monument aux Morts in Saint-Sigismond. As a tribute he also got a street name in Albertville, Rue Pierre Excoffier.

### Results

#### 1920 | individual

* 27-06-1920: 80° in stage 1 Tour de France, Paris - Le Havre
* 29-06-1920: 76° in stage 2 Tour de France, Le Havre - Cherbourg

#### 1921 | individual

* 11-06-1921: 7° Lyon - Grenoble
* 26-06-1921: 67° in stage 1 Tour de France, Paris - Le Havre
* 28-06-1921: 77° in stage 2 Tour de France, Le Havre - Cherbourg
* 30-06-1921: 64° in stage 3 Tour de France, Cherbourg - Brest
* 02-07-1921: 68° in stage 4 Tour de France, Brest - Les Sables-d´Olonne
* 04-07-1921: 59° in stage 5 Tour de France, Les Sables-d´Olonne - Bayonne

### Sources

* De Wielersite - http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=47507
* Mémoire du Cyclisme - http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/pelotons/coureurs.php?c=11451
* Cycling Ranking - https://www.cyclingranking.com/rider/20967/pierre-excoffier
* Museo del Ciclismo - http://www.museociclismo.it/content/ciclisti/ciclista/21043-PierreEXCOFFIER/index.html
* Tourstats - https://www.tourstats.dk/root/riders.php?id=4292
* Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre\_Excoffier\_(cyclist)
* Tour de France Statistieken - https://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/coureur.php?id=47507
* Musée de la Résistance - http://www.museedelaresistanceenligne.org/personne.php?id=31364
* Les monuments aux morts - https://monumentsmorts.univ-lille.fr/monument/4628/albertville-place/
* Mémorial GenWeb - https://www.memorialgenweb.org/memorial3/html/fr/complementter.php?table=bp&id=1502147
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