.Both sides scored three tries at the Hive Stadium but Giacomo Da Re’s seven points with the boot proved the difference and Edinburgh were chasing the game for the bulk of the United Rugby Championship encounter.
Almost every player will now return to their European clubs whilst Felipe Contepomi and his staff will take a well-deserved break after all the reports have been presented.
France was extremely efficient and scored from every opportunity they created to close the Autumn Nations Series with a win.
Starting Gonzalo Garcia at scrumhalf is a true statement of how Argentina plan to take on France, and shackle the best player in the world.
Argentina have made one change to their starting XV to the side that narrowly lost to Ireland on Friday for their encounter with France in their final match of their Autumn Nations Series campaign.
Ireland continues to be the one place in the oval world that Argentina has not won in. All the other mayor countries have been defeated at home.
Argentina player ratings: It wasn’t to be for Los Pumas who, after pushing Ireland to the limit, lost by three points in Dublin, a city they have never been able to celebrate in.
Argentina's 107-cap flanker Pablo Matera has returned to their starting line-up to face Ireland on Friday at the Aviva Stadium after serving a two-week ban.
Italy and Argentina have both named sides with only two players with fewer than 10 caps for their encounter in Udine on Saturday.
South Africa clinched the Rugby Championship in emphatic style with a bonus-point win over Argentina at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Saturday.