Sorry ParraEelsNRL, your introduction of the Coupe de France de Rugby à 13 known also as the Lord Derby Trophy is false.
The French Rugby à XIII Cup i.e. Coupe de France de Rugby à 13 was created the same season as the French Championship of Rugby à XIII i.e. season 1934-35, the 1st winner of the French Rugby à 13 Cup is the club US Lyon Villeurbanne (it was the 5th of May 1935 in Toulouse). The aforesaid Coupe de France is the major knock-out competition for all French rugby league clubs.
The origin of the Lord Derby Trophy is the gift trophy (a big and marvellous silver cup) offered, on may 1935, by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby for the Super Game and to the winner of the Super Game: Winner of the 1935 Challenge Cup (Castelford, 4th of May 1935) versus Winner of the 1935 Coupe de France de Rugby à 13 (US Lyon Villeurbanne, 5th of May 1935).
. The Super Game took place the 12th of May 1935, in the stadium Buffalo of Paris ; US Lyon Villeurbanne won it and, from the hands of Walter Smith -RFL manager-, received the Super Game trophy offered by Edward George Villiers Stanley.
Some months after, to symbolize the English-French Rugby League Entente Cordiale (or the main French RL Cup), US Lyon Villeurbanne remitted its trophy offered by Edward Stanley to the Ligue Française de Rugby à XIII -LFR XIII- (French RL Federation). During the season 1935-36, the LFR.13 took the Super Game trophy as the trophy symbol of the French Rugby à XIII Cup, like the evidence remitted to its annual winner, and gave to the Super Game trophy the name of Lord Derby.
Since The French Rugby à XIII Cup Final on 19th of April 1936 -in Bordeaux, winner Côte Basque XIII-, the Coupe de France de Rugby à 13 is also known like the Lord Derby Cup and it is represented by the Lord Derby Trophy (French: Trophée Lord Derby).
Edward George Villiers Stanley -17th Earl of Derby- was the honorary president of the Rugby Football League, a politician and had also previously served as the British ambassador in Paris.
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