Owen Farrell didn't have a storming game but he brought something that had to be weighed in gold. He looked as if he would soon enough pull his chair up under the table, settle down and before anyone might have imagined start shouting the odds.

View From The Sofa: Six Nations, BBC

What happened at Murrayfield is unlikely to be repeated when the opposition stiffens

France 30 Italy 12: Flying start for Saint-André as a full house in Paris is treated to four tries against Italy

Britain's Oli Golding battled into the quarter-finals of the boys' singles at the French Open with a 6-3 3-6 6-2 victory over highly-rated American Marcos Giron today.

Here he is at his jauntiest, on the set of French film Confession d’un Enfant du Siècle. We thought these were his usual clothes, but it is, in fact, a costume.

The writings of Marguerite Duras are imprinted with an artistic hauteur that is unmistakably French.

Should we have expected anything else but wild accusations and slurs from Diego?

An exciting-looking combination of the established and the untried are in France preparing for the one Test before the Four Nations this autumn.

These French matches are more like the meeting of warring tribes. Physical well being and safety goes out of the window; nothing matters but reaching the final, which will be played in Paris next Saturday night.