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You see, I make all sorts of assumptions about things I really don't have the first idea about. I try to hold my tongue (and pen, and fingers) but sometimes I end up making a statement about something based entirely on prejudice.
Now, private education in France is something I really don't have the first idea about; and private education in France in schools run by the SSPX, Archbishop Lefebvre's lot, is a book even more firmly closed. But if you'd asked about sport in such schools, I would have opined that it wouldn't be a particularly high priority, and that it would have been based on field sports. Why? Ignorance! Complete ignorance.
Just look at the advert for a rugby competition which I found here!
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Very interesting Ttony.
Somewhat on the same theme, years ago I went to Lourdes with the Leeds Diocesan Pilgrimage and the proprietor of the hotel where I was staying somehow thought that we, English, must all be Rugby fanatics so he arranged a trip to meet one of France's Rugby players of that time. I went along out of curiosity and it was a very pleasant evening.
JARay
Lourdes is massive rugby country. There is a bar in the town run by a former French rugby international. It is popular with Welsh pilgrims.
What is a "field sport" as opposed to Rugby, which I suppose is also played in a field?
-the ignorant American.
Susan Peterson
Susan, field sports are athletics and the stuff like javelin, pole vault etc that happen inside the running track while the athletics are on.
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