PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

EVERY year, Jean-Pierre Bastiat would organise a reunion dinner for those who won the French Grand Slam in 1977.
And every year, Bastiat paid the bill without anyone knowing. “He lived his life always sharing what he had,’’ says the rugby author Richard Escot. “He loved to sing and he loved to eat at those long French meals that start at midday and finish four hours later.’’
Born in a village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Bastiat left school without any qualifications, started work as a postman and ended up owni...