Louis Picamoles 'tossed me aside as nonchalantly as a Parisian flicking a Gitanes butt onto the Champs d'Elysees’

France’s No 8 may be comparatively small, but Louis Picamoles has a habit of humiliating those who underestimate him

There are a few things unusual about Louis Picamoles. For a start the France No 8 doesn’t do Twitter, one of the few professional players to shun the social network site. Nor does he hail from the south of France like so many of his team-mates.

Picamoles is a Parisian, who learned his rugby in Yvelines, just south of the capital, before moving to Montpellier in his teens and then on to Toulouse.