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Guy Ignolin

French road bicycle racer (1936–2011)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ2855276 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guy Ignolin (14 November 1936 – 15 December 2011) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Vernou-sur-Brenne and died in Lannion, aged 75.

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“Guy Ignolin” enters the record as french road bicycle racer (1936–2011). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ignolin, French and road can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-11-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ignolin, French and road.
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“Guy Ignolin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ignolin, French and road provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2855276. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guy Ignolin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.