Henri Levée
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| Date of birth | 17 March 1885 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 26 March 1943 (aged 58) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Sachsenhausen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
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Henri Levée (17 March 1885 – 26 March 1943) was a French international rugby union player.[1]
Biography
[edit]An industrialist from Paris, Levée played rugby for Racing Club de France and was capped for his country in their first ever official Test match, as a centre against the 1905–06 All Blacks at the Parc des Princes.[2]
Levée, who was Jewish, was captured by the Germans during World War II and sent to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, where he died of pleurisy in 1943 at the age of 58.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Flashback. Le premier match officiel de l'équipe de France de rugby en 1906 !". Le Rugbynistère (in French). 18 April 2021.
- ^ McCrery, Nigel; Rowe, Michael (28 February 2018). Final Scrum. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 1473894522.
- ^ "En cette journée hommage aux victimes de la déportation, voici Histoire: une mise en lumière de trois internationaux français (rugby) internés dans les camps nazis". cspg-rugby.ffr.fr (in French).
External links
[edit]- Henri Levée at ESPNscrum
- Henri Levée at Fédération Française de Rugby
Categories:
- 1885 births
- 1943 deaths
- French rugby union players
- France international rugby union players
- Rugby union centres
- Rugby union players from Paris
- Racing 92 players
- Jewish rugby union players
- Jewish French sportspeople
- Deaths from pleurisy
- People who died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- French Jews who died in the Holocaust