France 43-8 Tonga

Coach Bernard Laporte has made nine changes from the team that hammered Tonga 43-8 at the weekend.

Julien Bonnaire is at number eight while Castaignede, centre against Tonga, reverts to his club position.

Laporte said: "He was very convincing against Tonga and saved the selectors a lot of time and discussion."

Bonnaire is preferred to Thomas Lievremont in the only other change to the line-up France fielded in their win over Australia three weeks ago.

After missing the Australia Test because of suspension, Bonnaire played blind-side flanker in the wins over Canada and Tonga.

Fabien Pelous, serving a nine-week ban for elbowing Australia hooker Brendan Cannon, is replaced by Lionel Nallet - preferred to Gregory Lamboley - while fellow lock Jerome Thion will captain the team.

Scrum-half Jean-Baptiste Elissalde and fly-half Frederic Michalak replace Dimitri Yachvili and Yann Delaigue respectively.

Prop Pieter De Villiers steps in for Stade Francais team-mate Sylvain Marconnet, with hooker Dimitri Szarzewski replacing former skipper Raphael Ibanez.

The French drew 30-30 with South Africa on 18 June in Durban. The Springboks defeated them 27-13 a week later in Port Elizabeth.

France team to play South Africa:
Thomas Castaignede (Saracens); Aurelien Rougerie (Clermont), Florian Fritz (Toulouse), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse), Cedric Heymans (Toulouse); Frederic Michalak (Toulouse), Jean-Baptiste Elissalde (Toulouse); Olivier Milloud (Bourgoin), Dimitri Szarzewski (Stade Francais), Pieter De Villiers (Stade Francais), Lionel Nallet (Castres), Jerome Thion (Biarritz, capt), Yannick Nyanga (Toulouse), Remy Martin (Stade Francais), Julien Bonnaire (Bourgoin).