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England have confirmed an audacious fly-half switch with Fin Smith starting astatine 10 and Marcus Smith shifted to full-back against France connected Saturday.
Fin Smith volition marque his archetypal Test commencement aft 7 appearances disconnected the bench.
His Northampton team-mate Ollie Sleightholme comes successful for the injured Cadan Murley connected the helping and brings the Saints contingent successful the backline up to 4 with helping Tommy Freeman and scrum-half Alex Mitchell besides starting.
Tom Willis is astatine fig 8 successful the lone different alteration to the starting XV, arsenic Ben Earl moves to open-side flanker and Ben Curry drops to the bench.
Former skipper Jamie George returns from wounded and, on with the versatile Elliot Daly, is among the replacements.
Freddie Steward, who started astatine 15 successful past weekend's decision by Ireland, drops retired of the 23-strong matchday squad.
Saturday's crippled starts astatine 16:45 GMT.
England: M Smith; Freeman, Lawrence, Slade, Sleightholme; F Smith, Mitchell; Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Stuart, Itoje (c), Martin, T Curry, Earl, Willis
Replacements: George, Baxter, Heyes, Chessum, Cunningham-South, B Curry, Randall, Daly
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