Rugby/ Beziers/ Bordeaux/ RCF/ JO/ Cadenat/ Bruneau/ Gondoui - Lot 350

Rugby/ Beziers/ Bordeaux/ RCF/ JO/ Cadenat/ Bruneau/ Gondouin. Two press photos, silver print depicting three Ovalie figures from heroic times: a) Jules Cadenat ( of the Scuf) and Maurice Bruneau (1883-1967) of Bordeaux (circa 1911), 18x13 (small tear to r); b) Charles Gondouin (1875-1947), and Jules Cadenat as player (No. 5) (probably North-South selection match or possible-probable (circa 1913) (two stains, 18x13). Between the truculent Jules Cadenat of Béziers and the Scuf (7 caps, one lost final in 1913), who became a prodigious leader and inventor of wine barrels for the XV de France, and Charles Gondouin (RCF pillar), who, before becoming an undisputed referee (and retouched in the photo), was a rugby gold medallist in 1900, then twice French champion with Racing, sneaks up on us, the man also known as "the mouse", or d'Artagnan, so good was he at sneaking up and attacking. We mean Maurice Bruneau, who, with his four caps in the back row and six national titles with Sbuc, is in the firmament of the pre-14 Aces. He was also a chemical engineer and oenologist (hello Monsieur Cadenat). The photo? where Julius (like Caesar) and Maurice, the mouse, are side by side, is a real appetizer for a third half with Bacchus.