Lucien Besset
| Date of birth | 4 January 1892 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 April 1975 (aged 83) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 146 lb (66 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
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Lucien Besset (4 January 1892 – 22 April 1975) was a French politician and international rugby union player.
Biography
A native of Paris, Besset played rugby union in his youth with Universitaire de France (SCUF), mainly as a fly–half, and was a member of their French Championship–winning team in 1913. He was capped twice for France as a centre during the 1914 Five Nations, against Wales in Swansea and England in Paris, contributing two conversions in the latter.[1]
Besset served two terms in the Chamber of Deputies for Seine from 1928 to 1936, representing the Independent Radicals. He was succeeded by Florimond Bonte.[2] During the 1960s, Besset was president of SCUF.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Finales Rugby - Besset Lucien". finalesrugby.fr.
- ^ "MM. Louis Rollin et Jacques Rueff à Paris". Le Monde (in French). 14 May 1951.
- ^ "Les Soixante-Dix Ans Du S.C.U.F." Le Monde (in French). 8 October 1966.
External links
- Lucien Besset at ESPNscrum
- Lucien Besset at Fédération Française de Rugby