Vincent Clerc goes over for France in last year's Six Nations clash © Getty Images

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Matches: Wales 16 - 9 France

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Wales host France on Saturday in the 90th official match between the two sides.

Wales have won 43, France 43 and the last of the three draws was in 1974. France claimed a 26-20 victory in their most recent meeting in Cardiff in 2010 and backed it up with a triumph at the Stade de France last year where Les Bleus prevailed 28-9. And France also ended Wales' World Cup dreams with a 9-8 win in the semi-finals of the 2011 tournament.

France gave caps for two additional "Victory" Internationals staged in 1945-46 with France winning one game and the Welsh XV the other.

France set the records for the highest score and biggest winning margin in the series in their 51-0 Wembley Stadium win in 1998. The French ran in seven tries that afternoon, their best return for this fixture.

The best Welsh victories to date are 49-14 (highest score) in 1910 at St Helen's, Swansea and 47-5 (best margin) in Paris in 1909 when they created the record for most tries in a match in the series (eleven).

The highest individual haul in a match is 29 points by Neil Jenkins in the Cardiff friendly in August 1999. He also scored 28 in Paris in 2001, chalking up a full-house of scoring actions with a try, four conversions, three penalty goals and two drops.

Guy Camberabero performed that feat for France in Paris in 1967, scoring a try, conversion, two drop goals and a penalty goal in a 20-14 win. But it is Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, with 24 at Cardiff in 2004, who holds the French points record for a match.

Reggie Gibbs set the record for most tries in a match, crossing four times in Wales's 36-4 win at Cardiff on a Monday afternoon in March 1908. Emile Ntamack is the only French player to score a hat-trick of tries in a match in this series, in Paris in 1999.

Gibbs also heads the list for most overall tries in the matches. His seven were scored in only three appearances between 1908 and 1911. For France, Serge Blanco crossed six times in eleven matches between 1981 and 1991 and Emile Ntamack also scored six tries in the series.

Neil Jenkins is the leading overall scorer with 152 points for Wales in 13 appearances between 1991 and 2001. Christophe Lamaison holds the French record with 53 points in his five matches between 1997 and 2001.

Philippe Sella, who appeared 14 times for France between 1983 and 1995, created the record for most appearances in this fixture. Neil Jenkins played 13 times for Wales between 1991 and 2001.

Wales - France Six Nations results:
2000 Wales 3-36 France (Cardiff)
2001 France 35-43 Wales (Paris)
2002 Wales 33-37 France (Cardiff)
2003 France 33-5 Wales (Paris)
2004 Wales 22-29 France (Cardiff)
2005 France 18-24 Wales (Paris)
2006 Wales 16-21 France (Cardiff)
2007 France 32-21 Wales (Paris)
2008 Wales 29-12 France (Cardiff)
2009 France 21-16 Wales (Paris)
2010 Wales 20-26 France (Cardiff)
2011 France 28-9 Wales (Paris)

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