'Such serenity, such mastery, such talent': How French media reacted to the Grand Slam

Grégory Alldritt, Anthony Jelonch and Antoine Dupont celebrates with fans after the game

“A Blue Blood Grand Slam”, crowed the Midi Olympique website - an intentionally ironic headline given the ‘impure blood’ line in La Marseillaise - after Les Bleus won a first Six Nations since 2010 with a perfect five from five.

Under the headline “Many thanks, little ones, the Grand Slam is yours”, Midol’s Leo Faure succeeded in fixing the emotion of the night in words in his on-the-whistle report: “What a madness it was,” he wrote. “A stadium as full as an oyster, a team composition shouted like never before at the SdF, La Marseillaise a capella, ten million people watching on TV...