Djibril Camara will make his France debut as one of five changes to their side for Friday's Six Nations clash with Wales at the Principality Stadium.
The Stade Francais winger, 26, was only called into the squad on Sunday as cover for the injured Teddy Thomas and Marvin O'Connor, and he has been thrown straight into Guy Noves' starting XV.
Noves has also made a change at scrum-half where Sebastien Bezy, who started the narrow wins over Italy and Ireland, loses his spot to the experienced Maxime Machenaud.
Another player to impress off the bench against Ireland, prop Rabah Slimani, is preferred to Uini Atonio, while flanker Antoine Burban replaces Yacouba Camara and lock Paul Jedrasiak comes in for Yoann Maestri.
The France bench includes fly-half Francois Trinh-Duc, the Montpellier back who was not selected for the World Cup and has just come back from a leg injury.
France: 15 Maxime Medard, 14 Virimi Vakatawa, 13 Maxime Mermoz, 12 Jonathan Danty, 11 Djbril Camara; 10 Jules Plisson, 9 Maxime Machenaud; 1 Jefferson Poirot, 2 Guilhem Guirado (capt), 3 Rabah Slimani, 4 Paul Jadrasiak, 5 Alexandre Flancquart, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 7 Antoine Burban, 8 Damien Chouly.
Replacements: 16 Camille Chat, 17 Uini Atonio, 18 Vincent Pelo, 19 Yoann Maestri, 20 Loann Goujon, 21 Sebastien Bezy, 22 Francois Trinh-Duc, 23 Gael Fickou.