30 Amazing French Bicycle Posters in the Late 19th Century

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name “bicycle.”

French bicycle posters in the 1890s

Cycles ‘St. George’s, circa 1890

Phebus Paris, circa 1890

Cycles l’Etendard Francais, 1891

Cycles Decauville, 1892

Cycles Whitworth, 1894

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