France put faith in Dupont return

By TOM BRADSHAW

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France v South Africa
Today. Kick-off 8pm, Stade de France
France are preparing for a game of “rare intensity” and simmering violence as Antoine Dupont returns to captain the hosts against South Africa just 24 days after fracturing his jaw.
The talk from both camps in the countdown to this evening’s rumble at the Stade de France has been of the seismic battle that awaits – and one man with a vested interest in the contest expects to feel the tremors from hundreds of miles away in the English West Country.
Johann van Graan, Bath’s head of rugby, was the Sprin...

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