Captain Antoine Dupont will fill the void at fly-half as France named their team to take on the Springboks in the Nations Championship on Friday.
Les Bleus were already without Matthieu Jalibert going into the November Tests when their other star 10, Romain Ntamack, went off with a serious-looking injury against Fiji.
With another option, Antoine Hastoy, also on the sidelines, the French have suffered a playmaking crisis heading into the South Africa encounter.
Maxime Lucu filled in at fly-half in the dominant victory over the Flying Fijians, but he has been named at scrum-half for the Stade de France clash.
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