Two fashionable couples who have decided to tour Normandy and Brittany by bike assume at first that they have overestimated their strength... but then it is decupled thanks to an unexpected elixir: Love. All four of them soon realize that their original pairing wasn’t the right one. So they exchange partners – not without some hesitation and sneaking around at first. And then they ride as though they had wings on their feet.

Readers will discover a novelist whose ideas were quite bold for his day, who extols nudity in body and mind, advocates for free love and all sorts of emancipation, and doesn’t hesitate to make his female characters the better people.

We’re bringing one of the sporty novels by the creator of Arsène Lupin (1898) back into the spotlight: a love song to the glory of bicycles.