"Contrechamp" : Springboks 1907
Dear Sandrine, I have been trying for ages to write a note called "Contrechamp"... and you will admit that it's not exactly obvious when my main topic is about rugby, in English moreover... Done deal, and end of private messages...
French cinema vocabulary... "Shot - Reverse Shot" or "Champ - Contrechamp" in French...
"Champ" : Paul Roos' Springboks in Paris, Parc des Princes, January 3rd 1907, before crunching 54-6 a Paris team (9 players from Stade Français incl. Combe, Lesieur, Jérome, Galichon...) NB : the "true" Equipe de France was playing in England two days after...
"Contrechamp" : 12 French press photographers... I've never seen so many of them in my old documents ! The Springboks, stopping over in Paris after their triumphant tour in Great Britain in 1906, were celebrated as rugby "masters"... enough to deserve the front page of French main sports magazine "La Vie Au Grand Air" (cf below : Morkel kicking while Roos is holding the ball)
The pictures don't come from the same newspaper... the upper one comes from "Les Sports Illustrés", the bottom one from "La Vie Au Grand Air"... Funnily, there was more competition in French sports press 100 years ago than today...
