Guy Boniface was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 Rugby union

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 footballer that represented France

France national rugby union team

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 in 35 Tests

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Born in Montfort-en-Chalosse

Montfort-en-Chalosse

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, Aquitaine

Aquitaine

Aquitaine , archaic Guyenne/Guienne , is one of the 27 regions of France, in the south-western part of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. It comprises the 5 departments of Dordogne, :Lot et Garonne, :Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes...

, he mainly played at centre, and played for Stade Montois

Stade Montois

Stade Montois is a French rugby union team that plays in the 2011–12 season in Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the country's professional league system.They were founded in 1908 and play in yellow and black...

 and U.S. Montfortoise. He won the French Championship with Stade Montois in 1963, and was runner up with them in 1959. He also won the Challenge Yves du Manoir

Challenge Yves du Manoir

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 in 1960, 1961, and 1962. Stade Montois' stadium was named after him following his death.

He played 18 Tests with his brother André Boniface

André Boniface

André Boniface is a former international rugby union player for France. His usual position was either on the wing or in the centres. His Test career for France, 1954 through to 1966, included 48 caps and 44 points. Boniface was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2005...

 including one Test against New Zealand (the All Blacks

All Blacks

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) in which the All Blacks had two sets of brothers playing. He helped France with the Five Nations

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 in 1959 - their first outright Championship victory. In 1968 - whilst returning home from a club match - he was killed in a traffic accident.

Both brothers were inducted together into the IRB Hall of Fame

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 in March 2011.

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