For his next exercise in shredding the Six Nations try book from A-Z, Louis Bielle-Biarrey will attempt to do something nobody has done for more than a hundred years.

Amid the bedlam of the Stade de France around midnight last Saturday, the slip of a lad in the red scrum cap would have had no way of grasping the magnitude of his evening’s work, nor of understanding its potential to extend far beyond helping raise the tournament to still dizzier levels of suspense.
L’Equipe’s one-word headline last Sunday – CRAZY – could have been aimed four-square at the mercurial whippet from Bordeaux with...