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Jean Preuss

French cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ100235386 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean Preuss (10 July 1904 – 14 September 1986) was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1929 Tour de France.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jean Preuss” as french cyclist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1904, 1986, 1929—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1904-07-10. The account is most persuasive where Jean, Preuss and French can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as french cyclist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q100235386. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1904, 1986 and 1929.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean Preuss” 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.