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Robert Levasseur (rugby union)

French rugby union player (1898–1974)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1812764 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Levasseur (27 January 1898 in Paris – 25 May 1974) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920, he won the silver medal as a member of the French team.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Robert Levasseur (rugby union)” is french rugby union player (1898–1974). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Robert, Levasseur and rugby, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1974, 1920—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1898-01-27. For this dossier, Robert, Levasseur and rugby is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “french rugby union player (1898–1974)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1812764. VIAF identifies the subject as 3938149198331974940000. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1974 and 1920.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Levasseur (rugby union)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.