A full match report of tonight's match in Paris is now live for your perusal, but that's just about it from us for today's warm-up-athon.

Less than two weeks until England kick it all off at Twickenham against Fiji on 18 September, with full coverage here on BBC Sport - we'll see you then!

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Scotland should feel very positive about the World Cup after that performance. Gutsy and brave in defence, and fully prepared to attack rather than feed off scraps. 

Having said that, wins in Paris are as common as hen's teeth and Vern Cotter is bound to rue the fact his side held the lead as often as they did but still came away empty-handed. It'll be all about the key moments over the next few weeks.

Tom English
BBC Scotland

"Scotland were much better physically tonight than they've been in the last three games. This was pretty much the first-choice French side they were up against.

"But what astonished me was what happened around 71-72 minutes. Scotland spent three or four minutes defending their own line. They survive. Incredibly. They lift the siege, they get the line-out - and then they give away the line-out. It's like getting out of jail and then saying: 'Do you know what? I'm going to go back in.' This team have a death wish. Scotland's line-out tonight was really poor."

Ian MacKinnon:  Wayne Barnes is French.

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They go for a try to generous applause from the home crowd. Maitland goes through the middle, spins around to feed Strokosch 10 yards out....and he spills it! It's all over and Scotland have slipped to a brave defeat - but there's been a lot of positives.

We're past the 80 minutes but the 14 men of Scotland are swarming all over France in the home 22 and get a penalty! Go for points, get a draw or go for glory with a try? David Denton is back on, although they did pretty well without him.

The Harry Potter author, there, having her Saturday night well and truly ruined.

Sloppy from both sides, a Scottish attack is thwarted by a forward pass, then France give it away when trying to break out. A boring friendly this is not!

Scotland have a line-out on the French 22, they are still giving this a real go and you'd never know they are a man short.

 John Thomson: Another defeat. Nothing new.

John Beattie
Former Scotland back row, BBC Radio Scotland

"It should be a penalty. We went right through the gap, and half of that French team were offside. The fact that the ball went into touch is irrelevant. It should be a penalty to Scotland. This is a joke."

Opportunity missed by Scotland. Bennett bursts up the middle and is snagged by the shorts, then Matt Scott hurls a wild pass into touch from the centre when a calm head was needed - two blue shirts were begging for the ball out wide.

John Beattie
Former Scotland back row, BBC Radio Scotland

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"We didn't do anything to disrupt that scrum, we just tried to hold it, so France had a complete training-ground move. All the work we've put in has been undone because we didn't do enough there. Without naming names, we missed some tackles."