High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maurice-Francois Garin (Arvier, Aosta Valley, Italy, 3 March 1871, died Lens (or Haute-Savoie), France, 19 February 1957) was a road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating.