Lucien Besset

Lucien Besset was a French politician and international rugby union player.

Biography

A native of Paris, Besset played rugby union in his youth with Universitaire de France, mainly as a fly–half, and was a member of their French Championship–winning team in 1913. He was capped twice for France as a centre during the 1914 Five Nations, against Wales in Swansea and England in Paris, contributing two conversions in the latter.
Besset served two terms in the Chamber of Deputies for Seine from 1928 to 1936, representing the Independent Radicals. He was succeeded by Florimond Bonte. During the 1960s, Besset was president of SCUF.