Another giant screen is being set up in front of the 16th century Paris Town Hall, which has organised a three-day festival, "Tous en finale avec le XV de France" (Everyone in the final with the French XV), complete with scrum machines, rugby workshops for kids and computer simulation of tries and passes.
On the opposite bank of the Seine, the Quai Branly Museum, which specialises in the art of Africa and Polynesia, is screening the match in a 400-seat cinema as part of an exhibition,'Maori, leurs trésors ont une me" (Maori: Their Treasures Have a Soul"), which includes haka lessons and Maori story-telling.
In the southwestern heartland of rugby, supporters have been called to the Ernest Wallon stadium in Toulouse to watch the match and in Bordeaux, a giant screen has been installed the city's main square, the Place de la Victoire.
In the hamlet of Bouillon - its name means "soup" - the town's annual festival, scheduled for this weekend has been hastily rearranged so residents can watch the match.
'This town loves its rugby, we don't have our own team but we have a lot of people who play or have played rugby. Rugby is our tradition,' Bouillon's mayor Gerard Locardel told the Herald.
The main change to Bouillon's festival has been Sunday mass, originally scheduled for 10am. Villagers will now gather for mass an hour before the final kicks off but Mayor Locardel dismisses the idea that Les Bleus need too much divine intervention.
'For us French, it was no surprise we got to the final. The All Blacks should be a little bit scared of Les Bleus,' warned Locardel.
Last weekend's semi-final against Wales notched up 11.3 million TV viewers at the end of the match, the ninth biggest for a rugby game in France, despite its early hour.
TV advertising revenues have sky rocketed. According to the media consultancy Yacast, the channel TF1 has already pulled in nearly 20 million euros (NZ$ 34.7 million) from the 2011 World Cup. It can expect another seven million euros on Sunday, when a 30-second ad slot is being priced at 125,000 euros (NZ$216,700) compared with 100,000 euros for the semi-final - and just 75,000 euros for Les Bleus pool match against the All Blacks.
Newspapers have been almost obsessive in their reporting of the tensions in the French camp. Marc Lievremont's tortured relationship with his players has revived memories of France's nightmare in football's World Cup last year.
If this ugly mood and the All Blacks' present performance are any guide, les Bleus will be ground down to the consistency of foie gras by the time the final whistle has blown.
Set against that, say French commentators, are the flair of players such as Morgan Parra and Maxime Medard and the toughness of Thierry Dussautoir and Julien Bonnaire.
And they say there is every chance that the team will raise its head and a touch of "la fureur franaise" - piqued perhaps by Lievremont's barbs - will see them over the line.
"This is a dream final. When you are French and you are going to play in the World Cup, the greatest pleasure of all is to meet the All Blacks in the final," said former international Philippe Bernat-Salles.
"It is the fate of the French to live this great moment in a New Zealand stadium and before the New Zealand public. To those who criticise their performance - well, it's always easy to whinge when your arse is stuck to a sofa."
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