* Giro d ' Italia won by Bernard Hinault of France

* World Cycling Championship – Bernard Hinault of France

* Tour de France – Bernard Hinault of France

* Giro d ' Italia won by Bernard Hinault of France

* Giro d ' Italia won by Bernard Hinault of France

Greg Lemond and Bernard Hinault have been reported as having the times of 48m 0s in 1986.

It was founded after the 1983 season when multiple Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault broke from the Renault-Elf team that featured another Tour winner in Laurent Fignon after a falling-out with team manager, Cyrille Guimard.

Many of the top stage racers are also top performers in the individual time trial, such as Eddy Merckx, Alfredo Binda, Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault, Fausto Coppi, Laurent Fignon, Greg LeMond, Miguel Indurain, Jan Ullrich, Lance Armstrong, Ivan Basso, Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans, Fabian Cancellara and Bradley Wiggins.

Fignon was able to hold the wheel of Bernard Hinault, for most of the race.

In 1983, Fignon was a part of the team that helped Bernard Hinault to win the 1983 Vuelta a España.

In 1984, Hinault changed to the new La Vie Claire team, established by the French entrepreneur Bernard Tapie and directed by Swiss trainer Paul Koechli.

On his relationships with Cyrille Guimard and Bernard Hinault, Fignon said that with Bernard Hinault, Guimard already found a champion, whereas with himself, Guimard made a champion.

All this was achieved during the domination first by Eddy Merckx and then Bernard Hinault.

Domestiques do not share the fame of leaders such as Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Induráin or Lance Armstrong, but can achieve fame of their own.

They were sold from 1984, and in 1985 Bernard Hinault used them to win the Tour de France.

Bernard Hinault would attempt to equal the records of Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx who had each won the Tour de France five times.

Following the success of Bernard Hinault the previous year, the La Vie Claire team was heavily favored.

In the 1985 Tour de France, Bernard Hinault promised to return LeMond's support to win the race.

Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond each won the Tour de France wearing the rainbow jersey.

With Bernard Hinault setting a fast pace, Sherwen had little chance to regain the other riders.

The brand was synonymous with French bicycle racing from the 1960s through the mid-1980s, sponsoring riders such as Jacques Anquetil ( 1963 – 1965 ), Lucien Van Impe ( 1974 – 1976 ), Bernard Hinault ( 1975 – 1983 ), Laurent Fignon ( 1982 – 1988 ), and Greg LeMond ( 1981 – 1984 ).

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist ( 1090 – August 20, 1153 ) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.

Louis VI of France convened a national council of the French bishops at Étampes in 1130, and Bernard was chosen to judge between the rivals for pope.

The crossing of the St. Bernard Pass had allowed the French to surprise the Austrian army and win victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

* 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters ( d. 1757 )

In the mid-1700s, French engineer Bernard Forest de Bélidor published Architecture Hydraulique which described vertical-and horizontal-axis hydraulic machines.

Charles Bernard Renouvier was the first Frenchman after Nicolas Malebranche to formulate a complete idealistic system, and had a vast influence on the development of French thought.

Bernard d ' Espagnat a French theoretical physicist best known for his work on the nature of reality wrote a paper titled The Quantum Theory and Reality according to the paper: " The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

* 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter ( d. 1999 )

* 1964 – Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach

* 1916 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( d. 1989 )

* 1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist ( d. 1878 )

* 1948 – Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist

* 1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host

* 1923 – Bernard Clavel, French novelist ( d. 2010 )

* 1907 – Jean Bernard, French physician ( d. 2006 )

* 1989 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( b. 1916 )

* 1754 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* 1785 – Bernard de Bury, French composer ( b. 1720 )

* 2002 – Bernard Fresson, French actor ( b. 1931 )

* 1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer

Stephen of Senlis, the Bishop of Paris, had been heavily influenced by the reforming zeal of Bernard of Clairvaux, and actively sought to remove royal influence in the French church.

* 1866 – Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist ( d. 1947 )

Tristan Bernard ( 7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947 ) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

His son, Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker ( using as scripts a number of works authored by his father ) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard ( My Father, Tristan Bernard ).