Émile Idée

Emile Idée
Personal information
Full nameEmile Idée
NicknameLe Roi de Chevreuse
Born(1920-07-19)19 July 1920
Nouvion-le-Comte, France
Died30 December 2024(2024-12-30) (aged 104)
Marolles-en-Brie, France
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1941–1946Alcyon–Dunlop
1946–1947La Perle–Hutchinson
1947Olmo–Fulgor
1948–1952Peugeot–Dunlop
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (1949)

Stage races

Critérium International (1940, 1942–43, 1947, 1949)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1942, 1947)
Grand Prix des Nations (1942)

Émile Idée (19 July 1920 – 30 December 2024) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Idée was a five-time winner of the Critérium National (a race that saw its name changed to Critérium International in 1979), a record he shares with Raymond Poulidor and Jens Voigt. He finished in second place in the 1948 Paris–Roubaix.

Idée turned 100 on 19 July 2020 and died on 30 December 2024, at the age of 104. At the time of his death he was said to have been the oldest Tour de France stage winner.