François Faber

**François Faber**
Personal information
Full name	François Faber
Date of birth	January 26, 1887
Date of death	May 9, 1915 (aged 28)
Country	Luxembourg
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1906-1907; 1908; 1909-1911; 1912; 1913; 1913-1914	Labor; Peugeot; Alcyon; Automoto; Saphir cycles; Peugeot
Major wins
	1909 Tour de France; Paris-Brussels; Paris-Tours (2x); Paris-Roubaix
	Infobox last updated on:
	May 23, 2008

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François Faber (26 January 1887 – 9 May 1915) was a Luxembourgian cyclist. He was born in France, but because his father was a Luxembourger, he was able to receive Luxembourg nationality.

In 1906 he participated in the Tour de France for the first time. He didn't finish. The next year, he was 7th and in 1908 he took second place and won two stages. In 1909 he dominated the Tour. He won five consecutive stages; a record that has been unbroken for almost a century.

He won 19 Tour de France stages, Paris-Brussels, Bordeaux-Paris, Sedan-Brussels, Paris-Tours (twice), Paris-Roubaix and the Giro di Lombardia.

When the First World War broke out Faber joined the French Foreign Legion. On 9 May 1915 at Carency near Arras he received a telegram saying his wife had given birth to a daughter. One story says that, cheering, he jumped out of the trench and was killed by a German bullet. Another, more commonly accepted, is that he was shot while carrying an injured colleague back from no-man's land during fighting between Carency and Mont-Saint-Éloi during the Second Battle of Artois.

The GP François Faber, a small race in Luxembourg, is named after him. There is also a plaque in his memory in the church of Notre Dame de Lorette in the French national war cemetery near Arras.