The three riders never separated. They took 12 hours and 20 minutes longer than Émile Georget on the stage from Roubaix to Metz and the judges were powerless because the race was decided not on time but points. It mattered not what speed riders managed than the order in which they crossed the line. The judges had to wait for everyone. Pépin pulled out between Lyon and Grenoble on stage five, paid the money he had promised and set off for the train home. Dargassies joined him. Gauban pulled out on the 11th. It was Dargassies' last Tour. Retirement and death Dargassies retired and ran first a food shop and then a bike shop, at the junction of the rue Faugère and the rue de Lumel in Grisolles. He died 1965, when he was 93. He is buried in the town's cemetery under his original name, Dargaties. Schools are named after him in Eaunes, Haute-Garonne and at nearby Portet-sur-Garonne. His bike is in the town museum at Montauban. Palmarès 1903 - 11th Tour de France 1904 - 2nd Bordeaux-Paris 1904 - 4th Tour de France Teams 1903: Gladiator (France) 1904: Gladiator 1905: Alcyon - Dunlop (France) 1906: Unknown 1907: Unknown References French male cyclists 1872 births 1965 deaths Sportspeople from Tarn-et-Garonne Cyclists from Occitania (administrative region)