High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jean Robic (born 10 June 1921 in Vouziers, Ardennes – died Claye-Souilly, 6 October 1980) was a French road racing cyclist, who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature (1.61m, 60 kg) and appearance was encapsulated in the nickname the hobgoblin of the Brittany moor. For faster, gravity assisted, descents he collected drinking bottles ballasted with lead or mercury at the summits of mountain climbs and "cols". After fracturing his skull in 1944 he always wore a trademark leather crash helmet.