Armand Vaquerin

Armand Vaquerin

Drawing of Vaquerin
Birth name	Armand Vaquerin
Date of birth	(1951-02-21)21 February 1951
Place of birth	Sévérac-le-Château, France
Date of death	10 July 1993(1993-07-10) (aged 42)
Place of death	Béziers, France
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	100 kg (220 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Loosehead prop Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1970–1986 AS Béziers () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1971–1980 France 26 (0)

Armand Vaquerin (21 February 1951 – 10 July 1993) was a French Rugby union footballer that represented France.

He played as a Loosehead prop for AS Béziers who won the French rugby championship ten times (a record), and for France.

Death

Vaquerin allegedly died in 1993 at the age of 42, seven years after the end of his sporting career, during a “demonstration” of Russian roulette in the Béziers bar “le bar des Amis”, avenue Gambetta.

This explanation of events was called into question by a podcast entitled “Le canon sur la tempe”, published in December 2018 and produced by Alexandre Mognol. Instead, the opaque past of Armand Vaquerin is described there: his frequentations in the night scene, his relations with the Toulon mafia circles (Jean-Louis Fargette), and his consumption of narcotics (notably cocaine).

Honours

• French rugby champion: 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984 with AS Béziers
• Challenge Yves du Manoir 1975 and 1977 with AS Béziers

External links

• Armand Vaquerin at ESPNscrum
• The top 10 frightening Frenchmen