André Boniface, architect of “French flair” and legend of French rugby, is dead. The former three-quarter center of Mont-de-Marsan, died Monday at the age of 89.
Selected 48 times in the tricolor jersey between 1954 and 1966, the genius of the XV of France won four Five Nations Tournaments for eleven participations. “We sometimes spent hours making and redoing movements, combinations on a corner of the table with glasses, salt shakers, everything that came to hand,” said the man who was part of the first French team victorious over the All Blacks in 1954.