Jean-Pierre Hortoland

Jean-Pierre Hortoland (born in Marseillan, Hérault, on 28 May 1947) is a French rugby union player. At 1m 80 and 102 kg (5'11" and 224 lbs), he played left prop for AS Béziers and RC Narbonne[1] and in the French national team against Australia at Colombes on 27 November 1971.[2] Armand Vaquerin replaced him at Béziers from the 1971/1972 season.

Hortoland has the distinction of having played in the best years of two first division clubs from his region.

Today, he is a physiotherapist-osteopath and currently head of the Institut franco-britannique d'ostéopathie (Franco-British Institute of Osteopathy) in Béziers.[3] He is the author of several works in this discipline.

Hortoland participates in local political life in Béziers in support of the Greens (les Verts).

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