France beat Australia 26-16 in Marseille before following that up with a 50-6 thrashing of Canada in Nantes last weekend.

Laporte, as expected, has opted to rotate his squad and Raphael Ibanez, Julien Laharrague, Vincent Clerc, Yann Delaigue, Olivier Milloud, Gregory Lamboley, Yannick Nyanga and Sebastien Chabal all come into the first XV.

Flanker Chabal and winger Clerc had only been been drafted into the France squad this week but both players now find themselves in the starting line-up.

France team manager Jo Maso said: Chabal has to show us that he can be a regular.

With Sale, he is perfect but with the France team, not yet. If we hope to beat the best teams, France needs to be consistent. Chabal is powerful and clever but we are asking him to be more active.

Saracens full-back Thomas Castaignede switches from full-back, where he started against Canada, to centre with Laharrague returning to the number 15 shirt.

France team to face Tonga in Toulouse on Saturday:

Julien Laharrague (Perpignan); Aurelien Rougerie (Clermont-Ferrand), David Marty (Perpignan), Thomas Castaignede (Saracens), Vincent Clerc (Toulouse); Yann Delaigue (Castres), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz); Olivier Milloud (Bourgoin), Raphael Ibanez (Wasps), Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Francais), Gregory Lamboley (Toulouse), Jerome Thion (Biarritz, captain), Julien Bonnaire (Bourgoin), Yannick Nyanga (Toulouse), Sebastien Chabal (Sale).

Replacements: Sebastien Bruno (Sale), Pieter De Villiers (Stade Francais), Lionel Nallet (Castres), Remy Martin (Stade Francais), Thomas Lievremont (Biarritz), Frederic Michalak (Toulouse), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse).