Michel Sitjar (13 September 1942 – 10 June 2019) was an international rugby union player for France and played club rugby for Agen. He also tried rugby league for a year in XIII Catalan after brutally stopping his career at 28. Sitjar played as a

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and won three Brennus Shields with the Sporting Union Agenais (1962, 1965 and 1966). In 2008 he published his first collection of poems (''Rugby & Poésie''), followed by the second one ''Rugby & Poésie, deuxième mi-temps'' two years later. He killed himself at his home in

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on June 10, 2019.

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