Alfred Mayssonnié
Encyclopedia
Alfred Mayssonnié was a French rugby union player, born in Toulouse
on the 10th of February. 1884, he plyaed as scrum-half and fly-half and he was the strategist of the team Red Lady. He disappeared during the Battle of the Marne
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He is honored every November 11, thanks to a stele bearing his image affixed to the monument to the dead Herakles Archer Toulouse.
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
on the 10th of February. 1884, he plyaed as scrum-half and fly-half and he was the strategist of the team Red Lady. He disappeared during the Battle of the Marne
First Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Marne was a First World War battle fought between 5 and 12 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army under Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. The battle effectively ended the month long German offensive that opened the war and had...
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He is honored every November 11, thanks to a stele bearing his image affixed to the monument to the dead Herakles Archer Toulouse.
History
- 3 caps for France, from 1908 to 1910.
- The only player in Toulouse in the first match of the French Five Nations team in 1910.
- Champion of France (and the Pyrenees) in 1912
- Champion of France with the teams second, third and fourth Stade ToulousainStade ToulousainStade Toulousain, also referred to as Toulouse, is a French rugby union club from Toulouse in Midi-Pyrénées. Toulouse is one of the finest rugby clubs in Europe, having won the Heineken Cup four times – in 1996, 2003, 2005 and 2010. They were also runners-up in 2004 and 2008 against London Wasps...
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