Originally Posted by
kingston
This
article in Le Parisien says Frenchman, Robert Coquen set the fastest time in 44h47m. They mention Eckstein and his velomobile at the end of the article. You gotta' love the French.
I actually noticed that the Paris-Brest-Paris wikipedia article was edited to name Robert as the 1st place finisher, then was subsequently edited to name Hajo.