[MENTION=333224]juvela[/MENTION] [MENTION=421554]Happy Feet[/MENTION]

My guess is that this bike is an early 1968 Gitane Grand Sport Deluxe. I'm going by the decals and the white plastic shift levers plus the cranks. You can't rely on the date code on the back of the Simplex RD cage because they frequently got sucked into the spokes and needed to be replaced.

I've never seen this style of Gitane seat tube sticker before.



While Gitane started using DuPont Mylar® Polyester Film Foil stickers around 1967, the classic "Foil Era" began in 1968 and continued until the end of 1973.

The red stickers on the lower priced models looked like this:




They used blue stickers with some frame colors. (results varied depending on vin rouge ou blanc pour le déjeuner et combien a été consommé)



The performance/racing models had silver seat tube stickers with a "SERVICE COURSE" sticker on the top tube.




BTW, Check the frame alignment....

Hope this helps...

Mssr. verktyg