If you’re a hardcore Who Dat and a Francophile, you’re living in the best of times.

Your two passions — the Saints and France — are aligning.

The Saints’ French connection is happening. In real time. Right before our eyes.

The relationship has grown in the two years since the club secured the NFL Global Market rights to Europe’s most popular country.

Owner Gayle Benson and linebacker Demario Davis led a Saints contingent on a marketing trip to Paris this summer.

The club has formed a strategic partnership with the Paris Musketeers of the European League of Football and is hosting a group of their players, coaches and executives this weekend.

Meanwhile, the NFL continues to negotiate with French officials to bring a Saints regular-season game to Paris in the next two years.

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