"Maître Jacques," as the peloton respectfully called him, raced through the childhood of his author Paul Fournel like a majestic Caravelle in "Anquetil tout seul," the sports book of the year 2012 in France. Since Fournel's admiration for him, the five-time Tour de France winner, had never faded, he only later came up with the idea of writing a portrait of him. Now this remarkable portrait has been published in German under the title "Anquetil - Mit Leib und Seele." "His pedal stroke was too beautiful to be true. He feigned ease and grace, climbing and standing pedaling in a predominantly male domain reserved for lumberjacks, pedal riders, and workhorses," writes Paul Fournel. Back then, in the sixties, the Grande Nation was divided into two camps: Poulidor, the eternal second, and "Maître Jacques," the unloved strategist.