Jean Le Droff (22 June 1939 – 11 November 2021) was a French international

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player. Le Droff hailed from Ordan-Larroque and was of

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descent. A lock forward, Le Droff played with

FC Auch Football Club Auch Gers is a French rugby union club based in Auch in Occitania most recently playing in the promotion-eligible pool of Fédérale 1. In recent years, they have mainly bounced between the first-level Top 14 and Pro D2. In a five-ye ...

through the 1960s and was known as a skilled line–out jumper. He gained nine France caps between 1963 and 1971, participating in their successful 1970 Five Nations campaign. Le Droff, a farmer, was a veteran of the

Algerian War The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) ''; '' (and sometimes in Algeria as the ''War of 1 November'') was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (Algeri ...

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Jean Le Droff
at Fédération Française de Rugby {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Droff, Jean 1939 births 2021 deaths French rugby union players France international rugby union players French people of Breton descent Rugby union players from Gers Rugby union locks FC Auch Gers players French military personnel of the Algerian War

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