ABSOLUTE brutality was the promise - absolute disaster was the reality.

Humiliated England boss Eddie Jones gave it the big ones before Le Crunch as if his World Cup runners-up were going to play a bunch of primary school bums in Paris.

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But the locker-room bully picked on the wrong set of kids and his side were absolutely schooled at the Stade de France by Romain Ntamack and co.

Forget steak frites tonight, Jones will be shovelling humble pie down his gob after this one after his side only turned up for the last 23 minutes and had the brilliant Jonny May to thank for salvaging something with his double.

And Shaun Edwards, the new France defence coach and Great Britain rugby league legend, will happily feed him the first glorious slice.

Edwards has been overlooked by England for years despite being one of Warren Gatland's trusted generals at Wales.

Yet again an English coach has stuck two fingers up to Twickenham after endless snubs.

And it was France's aggression and brutality that saw them complete back-to-back Six Nations wins against Les Anglais for the first time since 2006.

England simply were not expecting this kind of French revolution.

Exactly two months to the day since their disastrous defeat to South Africa at Japan 2019, they were struggling again.

Vincent Rattez struck after six minutes to get the party started thanks to some classy work by Teddy Thomas.

Fly-half Ntamack, France's 'Young Prince', 21, converted before adding a penalty before adding the extras to skipper Charles Ollivon's first - just five minutes after Manu Tuilagi trudged off.

Everything was going wrong.

Winger Jonny May stopped as he thought ref Nigel Owens should have blown the whistle in the build-up to Ollivon's score after a possible Rattez knock-on.

Debutant George Furbank was dropping high balls and easy catches as the game passed the 23-year-old by.

Elliot Daly, sacked from 21 Tests as England's full-back, continued to look weak under the aerial bombardment too as Ntmack tested him out.

Jones' side were being beaten up in every way possible and this was never in the Aussie bosses script.

But this is France, they do things their own way and are the ultimate side to flip flop from calamity to immortality in a flash.

Fabien Galthie's side hit tougher, ran faster and worked harder.

Ollivon struck again after the break despite England being camped on the France try line for six minutes with nothing to show.

At 24-0 down England were sinking into rugby's wasteland - just as Jones had warned World Cup runners-up do, to be fair.

They needed to hit the Mayday button, and they did.

Winger May scored two superb solo tries in an eight-minute blitz.

First the Leicester Tigers man chipped and chased, then he sliced England open after neat hands from George Ford and Elliot Daly to send the rocket man on his way.

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The game had turned, France were going backwards for the first time.

England had the momentum, but they didn't have the time to make a difference.

They huffed, they puffed, but they couldn't blow France away.

Not this time, not on Edwards' watch.

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