Thierry Dusautoir was recalled to the France team to play Samoa on Saturday after back-row teammate Louis Picamoles was ruled out with an injured knee.

Dusautoir's place on the bench for the game to be held at the Stade de France will be taken by Bayonne's Julien Puricelli. Veteran prop Sylvain Marconnet retains the captain's armband.

France show 12 changes from the team that defeated South Africa 20-13 in their first autumn international in Toulouse last week, with just Maxime Medard, Vincent Clerc and now Dusautoir starting their second consecutive game.

The French will also play New Zealand in Marseille in the third and final game in November.

France (15-1)

Maxime Medard (Toulouse); Benjamin Fall (Bayonne), David Marty (Perpignan), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse), Vincent Clerc (Toulouse); Francois Trinh-Duc (Montpellier), Morgan Parra (Clermont); Julien Bonnaire (Clermont), Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse), Alexandre Lapandry (Clermont); Pascal Pape (Stade Francais), Sebastien Chabal (Racing-Metro); Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Francais, capt), Dimitri Szarzewski (Stade Francais), Thomas Domingo (Clermont)

Replacements: Guilhem Guirado (Perpignan), Nicolas Mas (Perpignan), Romain Millo-Chluski (Toulouse), Julien Puricelli (Bayonne), Julien Dupuy (Stade Francais), Damien Traille (Biarritz), Yann David (Toulouse), Fabien Barcella (Biarritz)

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