Jean-Pierre Hortoland
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Jean-Pierre Hortoland is a French rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player, born in Marseillan
Marseillan, Hérault
Marseillan is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.It lies some west of Montpellier.Marseillan sits on a large salt-water lake, the Étang de Thau and is the southern Entreport for the Canal du Midi....

, Hérault
Hérault
Hérault is a department in the south of France named after the Hérault river.-History:Hérault is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

 on 28 May 1947. At 1m 80 and 102 kg (5'11" and 224 lbs), he played left prop for AS Béziers and RC Narbonne
RC Narbonne
Racing Club de Narbonne Méditerannée is a French rugby union club that play in the second-level Rugby Pro D2, after finishing at the bottom of the 2006-07 Top 14 table....

 and in the French national team against Australia at Colombes on 27 November 1971.
Armand Vaquerin
Armand Vaquerin
Armand Vaquerin was a French Rugby union footballer that represented France.He played as a Loosehead prop for AS Béziers witch win the French rugby championship ten times, and for France...

 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
Béziers
Béziers is a town in Languedoc in southern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the Hérault department. Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, centred around bullfighting, every August. A million visitors are attracted to the five-day event...

. 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).

Honours

  • Selected to represent France, 1971
  • French rugby champion, 1971, with AS Béziers
  • Challenge Yves du Manoir
    Challenge Yves du Manoir
    The Challenge Yves du Manoir was a rugby union club competition that was played in France between 1931 and 2003 under different names. It is named after former player Yves du Manoir.-History:...

    1973 and 1974 with RC Narbonne
  • French championship finalist 1974 with RC Narbonne
  • Junior French champion, 1968, with AS Béziers

Publications

  • Encyclopédie d'ostéopathie articulaire. Tome 1, Iliaque, pubis, coxo-fémorale, genou (2005)
  • Encyclopédie d'ostéopathie cranio-viscérale. Tome 2 (2006)
  • Encyclopédie d'ostéopathie cranio-viscérale. Tome 3 (2006)
  • Encyclopédie d'ostéopathie articulaire. Tome 4, Épaule, coude, poignet, main (2006)
  • Encyclopédie d'Ostéopathie Articulaire (vol 1 and vol 2)
  • Encyclopédie d'Ostéopathie à visée Viscérale, Fasciale, crânienne et ses relations musculo-squelettiques (vol 1 and vol 2 )
  • Ostéopathie et Articulation Temporo-mandibulaire
  • Le Traitement des Chaînes Musculaires
  • Encyclopédie d'Ostéopathie crânio-viscérale (4 volumes)
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