France, March 16 -- Pyrotechnics did for Ireland in Dublin last Saturday and the prosaic intermingled with a little panache was enough for France to notch up several records in dispatching Scotland on Saturday night to secure a seventh Six nations title.

France were solid rather than spectacular during the first-half.

Yoram Moefanawent over 17 minutes into the encounter at the Stade de France after a Thomas Ramos penalty had opened the scoring.

Ramos added the two points for the conversion to take his tally up to five points and a merited 10-0 lead.

But midway through the half, Ramos petulantly pushed Scotland scrum-half Ben White over Peato Mauvaka and Mauvaka promptly got up and ploughed into White.

His pique was punished with a ye...