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François Trinh-Duc

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Birthplace
Montpellier, France
Date of birth
11 November, 1986
Date of death
Ethnicity
French, one quarter Vietnamese, one quarter Italian
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Place of Birth: Montpellier, France

Date of Birth: 11 November, 1986

Ethnicity: French, one quarter Vietnamese, one quarter Italian

François Trinh-Duc is a French rugby union player. A fly-half and centre, he played for Montpellier, Toulon, Racing 92, and Bordeaux Bègles, and the France national team.

François has said :

I never met my grandfather so I don’t know his story so well. He was Vietnamese and to escape the Indo-China War he came to live in France… My name is Vietnamese. My origins are Vietnamese and I am very proud of that but I am French, very French.

I never met my grandfather so I don’t know his story so well. He was Vietnamese and to escape the Indo-China War he came to live in France… My name is Vietnamese. My origins are Vietnamese and I am very proud of that but I am French, very French.

François’s paternal grandfather was named Trịnh Đức Nhiên. Trịnh was Vietnamese, from French Indochina, and moved to Agen, France, after the Liberation of France. A picture of Trịnh can be seen here .