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On 19 December 1941 the collaborationist Vichy regime, banned the sport of Rugby League.
Marshall Petain's decree banning the support was instigated by the Rugby Union hierarchy, and backed up by force - Axis troops closed the French Rugby League office in Paris, and smashed up its records.
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