Around the Stade de France, the drizzle stops, then resumes.
Just over two hours from France - Italy, human clusters are forming and stretching out in front of the counters.
Nothing to do however with the disproportionate queues which formed a gigantic crowd in the same place two and a half months earlier.
On November 20, a few hours before the victory of the Blues against the All Blacks (40-25), it was very difficult to move between the silhouettes glued to each other.
Nothing like this this time.
The supporters arrive in scattered order this Sunday afternoon to attend France - Italy, the first lifting of the Tricolores in the 2022 Six Nations Tournament.
Among the first to arrive, Annabelle and Julien, a couple in their forties from Lille (North) accompanied by their two teenage children, Jeanne and Antoine, do not want to lose a beat.
“We haven't been here for ten years,” explains Annabelle.
We follow all the matches of the French team on TV and after the victory against New Zealand, Jeanne told us that she would like to discover a match at the Stade de France.
I took the places at the beginning of December and when they introduced the gauges, we crossed our fingers.
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Annabelle and Julien, a couple in their forties accompanied by their two teenage children, Jeanne and Antoine, came from Lille (Nord) to attend the match.
(LP/Olivier Francois.)
The gauges were lifted in time and just over 60,000 spectators are expected in the bays of the Saint-Denis enclosure.
"We hope they will make the Grand Slam", smiles Julien, very happy with the revival of the Blues.
Jeanne, she will mainly follow Romain Ntamack and Antoine Dupont, her favorites.
A little further on, Marc, in his sixties, is holding his 10-year-old grandson Nicolas by the hand.
They arrive from Créteil in the Val de Marne.
"We watched France - New Zealand together and I promised to take him to see a Tournament match", slips the grandfather.
“I loved seeing the victory against New Zealand on TV with my children, the atmosphere looked crazy, says Vanessa, 40, who came with her three boys aged 3, 7 and 9. .
We live in Saint-Denis not far from the Stadium, and I regretted not being there.
I looked this week and I was surprised to see that there were places left.
Italy is not the All Blacks, but we are happy to be here!
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