Classic Tour de France game. There have been different versions of it over time. According to Pierre Bertin ("De l'Arène Cycliste à la Grande Boucle"), some versions of this game date from as late as the fifties or even sixties. The wooden board featured below is probably even more recent than that. Of the three boxes pictured above, the two on the left belonged to the late Geert Lagrou's collection. The one on the right is a cheaper version of the game. There are no maker's identification or date on any (known) version. 

I read somewhere that this one was the oldest game be named after the Tour de France. I don't recall where I read it but I remember that it said the game was of 1930. Of course, being the oldest game named after the Tour is a relevant fact (for collectors, at least) and one that would be enough, if true, to make this game an important one. However, this game can hardly be from the year 1930 since it features the stages of the Tour de France of 1933, even if the retro look of the riders makes the game look older. Furthermore, there are a couple of  riders in national teams jerseys, and the Tour was not contested by national teams until 1930. 

Still, as far as I was concerned, the claim of being the oldest game named after the Tour was undisputed until I discovered this game or even this other one. Now I see things under a different light.

UPDATE December 2019: There is a picture of this game in Jean-Paul's Ollivier's book Chroniques du Tour de France (p. 39). The caption says "Petite affiche du Tour de France 1950. Cette image servit aussi de  couverture pour un jeu de société sur Tour de France". I do not know where Jean-Paul Ollivier's found this image, but I have been unable to find any relation between it and the 1950 Tour de France.

 

 

 

The board on the right belongs to the cheaper version.  Since the box is smaller, the board is oddly bent in four parts. The cardboard is thinner, too.

 

 

 

 

As mentioned above, the game has had quite a long life. Here is a wooden board, a reissue probably made in the 1970s (the foldable board on the right is the original, just shown here for comparison). By the way, on the flip side (of the wooden game) is a beautiful Jeu du Trotting aka Jeu des Petits Chevaux.

 

The rules are very simple. It is a game of goose, of course. The most interesting thing is that if you land on a field occupied by another player, you throw your dice again, and if you throw less (than the number you have thrown to land on that field), you go back to where you came from. On the other hand, if your throw is equal or higher, it is the other player who goes back to the field where you came from.

 

Nice signalectics

But no cyclists