The attendance at the Stade de France on 7 May 2000, for a cup final in which one of the two sides was an amateur club from the fourth division.
Who they were
Calais RUFC played in the CFA, the fourth tier of French football. The squad was amateur in the ordinary sense of the word: the players held jobs and trained in the evenings.
The club is from Calais, on the Channel coast, a port town better known in England for the ferry than for football.
Eleven matches
The Coupe de France is open to clubs from every level of the French game, which is the point of it. Reaching the final from the fourth division means winning round after round against sides from above.
Calais played eleven matches in the 1999-2000 competition to get to Saint-Denis. It was the eighty third edition of the cup and the first in which a fourth division club reached the final.
The final
The match was played on 7 May 2000 and refereed by Claude Colombo.
Calais were ahead at half time. Nantes, from the first division, equalised and then won it with a penalty late in the game. Antoine Sibierski scored both.
Two one.
What people remember
The cup was lifted by Nantes. The photographs that survived are mostly of Calais: the bench, the supporters who had come down from the coast, the players at the end.
France remembers the losing side, and the club still gets asked about it a quarter of a century later.
Why the number is the crowd
The print carries the attendance rather than the score, because the score is the ordinary part. Seventy eight thousand people came to watch a team of amateurs play a cup final, and that is the fact worth keeping.