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François Trinh-Duc (born 11 November 1986 in Hérault, France) is a rugby union player for Montpellier Hérault RC in France's top division of rugby union, the Top 14. Trinh-Duc's regular position is at fly-half or outside centre

He started playing rugby at the age of 4 at the Pic-Saint-Loup rugby school near Montpellier.^[1] There, he played with his future Montpellier team-mate Fulgence Ouedraogo. They both entered the club's youth teams at "Cadet" level (U-13/14). These two are said to be inseparable friends.

With fellow Montpellierains Louis Picamoles and Julien Tomas, they're part of the young quartet of home-grown talents embodying the success of the Montpellier Hérault Rugby Club's attempt at "shaking up the old order" of French rugby in the Septimanie terroir which had always been historical rival Béziers's stronghold ^[2].

He was called up by Marc Lièvremont to the France squad for the 2008 Six Nations Championship,^[3] and has played in all of France's matches in the competition to date.

Trinh-Duc was noted as one of the first ever rugby players of Vietnamese origin to play for the French national side.^[4] During a press interview, Trinh-Duc revealed that he inherited Vietnamese heritage from his paternal grandfather, who was born in Vietnam.^[5] Trinh-Duc's grandfather, Trịnh Đức Nhien, migrated to France during the First Indochina War and settled near Agen in Lot-et-Garonne. Nhien later married an Italian woman, from whom Trinh-Duc's father, Philippe was born.^{[6][fn 1]}

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• FFR profile (French)
• Montpellier Hérault RC profile (French)