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Fabrice Quénéhervé: "More than 85% retention among our club officials" and a Breton smile
President of the Ligue de Bretagne, the regional rugby body in Brittany, Fabrice Quénéhervé looks back on a very busy…

The Bouclier de Brennus, kilos of stories
From Louis Blanc to Leucate by way of the Camp Nou, an attic in Picardy and an agricultural fair in…

La Baule, gale warning: RCB casts off in Régionale 2
Relegated from Fédérale 2 to Régionale 2, Rugby Club Baulois is casting off with a brand new committee led by…

"Fantastic memories": Ibanez and France's forgotten university world title in 1996
Almost thirty years ago to the day, the France university side were crowned world champions in Johannesburg at the expense…

Metro, stadium, mixed zone: a Top 14 final seen from behind the scenes
Living through the 2026 Top 14 final between Toulouse and Montpellier from the other side of the barrier: here is…
"Down Under": La Baule sign a prop who has been through Ireland and New Zealand
Rugby Club Baulois have their summer signing: a prop of more than 100kg who has been through Dublin and then…

Stade Treillierain: the strength of a club on the rise
A club on the up, a historic promotion, and ambitions to match its energy. Stade Treillierain are entering a new…

"The European Cup is not a priority": South Africa owns it fully... and that changes everything
The European Cup is not a priority." The verdict, slipped out behind the scenes by a source close to the…

Fake blood, real shame: the day Harlequins tipped into one of the most staggering scandals in European Cup history
A Heineken Cup quarter-final, a tight scoreline, a tense finish and, in the shadows, a manipulation worthy of a bad…

Provins, rugby at heart
Born in Gouaix in 1969, within a whisker of shutting up shop in the 1990s before being reborn thanks to…

Clisson, the giant of the vineyards who finally lived up to itself
In Clisson, in the Nantes vineyards, the SAC is not just a rugby club: 463 registered members, 114 years of…

Rugby from Mayenne, and from the Mayenne
Three clubs for 300,000 inhabitants, a 33-year-old player-president and missionaries of the oval ball in the most rural department of…