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Albert Baker d'Isy
Albert Baker d'Isy (b. Paris 18 April 1906, d. 20 May 1968) was a French cycling journalist and author and the founder of the Grand Prix des Nations international time-trial. He is considered, in the French expression, "one of the most beautiful pens" of sports writing. Pierre Chany a contemporary, called him "The best sporting journalist of his generation." 
Biography.
Albert Baker d'Isy worked at "L'Écho des Sports", a sports newspaper which appeared erratically between
Resistance publication edited by Jacques Debu-Bridel. He was to replace Albert Baker d'Isy (1906–1968), an author and one of France's best-known contemporary writers. Baker d'Isy was already Chany's hero and the move brought them together for the first time and led to a lifelong friendship.
From there Chany moved to "Sport" and to "Ce Soir", publications associated with the Communist Party but which employed journalists of various opinions. It was when "Ce Soir" went out of business in 1953