Ewen McKenzie's Stade Francais have romped to their biggest win of the French league season, thumping Dax 56-15 to consolidate second position in the Top 14.

After a pre-Christmas mini slump, the former NSW Waratahs coach has Stade back firing on all cylinders and they ran in six tries against Dax in Saturday's home win in Paris.

Dax took the early lead with the opening try but from then on it was tries galore for the Parisians and points from the boots of Argentinian star Juan Hernandez and French flyhalf Lionel Beauxis.

Stade led 23-10 at the break, following 15 points from Hernandez, before cutting loose in the second half.

Stephane Glas, Hernandez, Mathieu Bastareaud, Alexandre Albouy and South African-born centre Brian Liebenberg all touched down, adding to Guillaume Bousses' first-half try.

Stade backs coach Christophe Dominici, however, decided not to go overboard with praise for his team.

"The final score was very flattering for us although on the whole, particularly team spirit, was good," Dominici said.

"Our focus was not up to scratch for the first 10 minutes, but the players managed to get a grip from then on and play an organised match.

"But we made quite a few handling errors and opponents with a little more talent might have put us in more difficulty."

Meanwhile, All Blacks superstar Dan Carter won the international flyhalf battle with England's Andy Goode when he shrugged off an Achilles injury to help kick Perpignan to an 18-15 victory against Brive on Sunday.

Carter missed training on Friday because of the injury but passed a fitness test just before kick-off.

The New Zealander hit the target with four penalties from four attempts with fullback Jerome Porical adding a penalty and a first-minute drop goal.

Goode kicked all of his side's points, but Carter starred with some searing breaks while the Englishman was guilty of a number of handling errors in the biting Brive cold.

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