Rugby. After a titanic opening match against the New Zealanders, the French rugby team continues its World Cup on Thursday against Uruguay, a much more modest opponent, in Villeneuve-d’Ascq at 9 p.m. The XV of France is putting its work back into practice and rotating its squad. Seventeenth nation in the world in the World Rugby rankings, Los Teros are no terrors for France, one of the favorites for the World Cup, to whom qualification along with first place in the group now seems promised barring an accident against Italy.
Humanity Day. The left meets in Essonne on Thursday for the traditional Fête de l’Humanité, where former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe will debate with the first secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel. The boss of the presidential Renaissance party, Stéphane Séjourné, however, canceled his participation to protest against the programming of the rapper Médine, which divides the political class.
