BICYCLE Advertising poster for "Cycles Gladiator". In the illustration of Ferdinand Mifliez aka Misti (1865-1922); a policeman runs after walking a couple who gives scandal: she in fact wearing a pair of baggy trousers; the two fugitives had fun watching the dazed expression of the representative of the order. Gladiator The Company; founded in 1891 by Alexandre Darracq (1855-1931) and Paul Aucoq; borrows the name from the famous French thoroughbred Gladiateur; the first galloper stranger to dominate in Britain; ambitious comparison for "steel horses". France; 1895