France head coach Jacques Brunel has named his team to face Italy in Friday evening's Six Nations match at the Orange Vélodrome in Marseille.
Brunel changes five of the side edged out by Scotland at Murrayfield 11 days ago, including a new back-three of Hugo Bonneval, Benjamin Fall and Remy Grosso.
The other switches are in midfield, where Toulon powerhouse Mathieu Bastareaud partners Geoffrey Doumayrou, and at lock, with Paul Gabrillagues featuring alongside Sebastien Vahaamahina.
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France team to play Italy
FORWARDS: 1 Jefferson Poirot, 2 Guilhem Guirado (CAPTAIN), 3 Rabah Slimani, 4 Paul Gabrillagues, 5 Sebastien Vahaamahina, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 7 Yacouba Camara, 8 Marco Tauleigne
BACKS: 9 Maxime Machenaud, 10 Lionel Beauxis, 11 Remy Grosso, 12 Geoffrey Doumayrou, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 14 Benjamin Fall, 15 Hugo Bonneval
REPLACEMENTS: 16 Adrien Pelissie, 17 Dany Priso, 18 Cedate Gomes Sa, 19 Romain Taofifenua, 20 Kelian Galletier, 21 Baptiste Couilloud, 22 Francois Trinh-Duc, 23 Gael Fickou