Zen !

Zen... ruggers are zen...

This picture is a zoom on a very sought-after French art deco postcard (hem... collector's stuff, I admit) published during 1924 Olympics by French aromatic wine "St Raphël Quinquina"...

Here is the postcard (larger pic here)... captions reads (in French) "Football Rugby : Si vous êtes fatigué, au lieu d'invoquer tous les Saints du Paradis, demandez le St Raphaël Quinquina" ("if you're tired, ask for St Raphaël Quinquina instead of invoking all Saints in Paradise")

This postcard is part of an "Olympic" series depicting all major sports... Our friend Yiannis from Greece displays the "water polo" card on his wonderful "Water Polo legends" website... as well as another fine "St Raphaël" poster print from the same era...

Edited July 20. : Yiannis has sent me  this other "swimming" card from the same series. Thanks Yiannis !

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[Frederic]

PS : I've just realized that Rugby and Water-Polo are the two oldest Olympic collective games...

Both of them (and only these two, actually) were present at 1900 Olympics in Paris...