a successful test of character against the All Blacks

So it took them a year. A long year to digest the terrible disillusionment of the World Cup and move forward with success « a founding success »says Antoine Dupont. Fabien Galthié was aware of this, he who had admitted, after the sluggish Six Nations Tournament (rout in Marseille against Ireland, draws in Scotland and against Italy in Lille) at the start of the year, that his players « had not yet done the work of acceptance and overcoming ». At the start of the November meetings, the coach had set the new course. This tour would be the launching pad towards the 2027 edition of the World Cup, in Australia. And, in particular, this shock against the rediscovered All Blacks who presented themselves at the Stade de France on the strength of their autumn successes in Twickenham and Dublin.

We were therefore going to know if the page had finally been turned, if this XV of France remodeled by a third was going to get back on the right path, the one which leads to « l’excellence