Montpellier's Australian scrum-half Nic White (C) runs with the ball during the French Top 14 match between Montpellier and La Rochelle.
A Ben Botica penalty three minutes into stoppage time saw Montpellier record a 12-11 victory over La Rochelle.
Uini Atonio scored the only try of the game for the visitors four minutes in. Francois Steyn's scored three penalties for Montpellier, but the visitors led 11-9 at the break with Brock James kicking two penalties, his second on the stroke of half-time.
That was how it remained until injury-time when Brock James' 50 metre penalty attempt fell short, only for La Rochelle's Charles Bouldoire to deliberately throw the ball dead. The referee went to the TMO and awarded Montpellier a penalty which Botica dispatched to secure victory.
Toulouse kicked off Round 9's action with gutsy 24-20 win over Pau at Stade du Hameau.
Pau led 20-17 with 13 minutes remaining, only for Toulouse second-row Joe Tekori to score to seal the result for the visitors.
Jean Marc Doussain had an afternoon to remember with the boot as he kicked a conversion, three penalties and a dropped goal.
Toulon are up to third after a convincing 42-12 win over Grenoble at Stade Félix Mayol.
The French glamour club were slow out of the blocks, and only led 8-5 after half an hour.
Mathieu Bastareaud, Mamuka Gorgodze, Jocelino Suta and Axel Muler got on the score sheet in Mike Ford's first game in charge, while referee Pierre Brousset awarded Toulon two penalty tries.
Stade Francais had the boot of Morne Steyn and Jules Plisson to thank in a 25-19 victory over Lyon.
Steyn converted Waisea Nayacalevu's third minute penalty and added three further penalties to give them a 16-13 first-half lead. Baptiste Couilloud crossed for Lyon five minutes before the break but could only manage two Mike Harris penalties in the second-half as Steyn (one) and Plisson (two) kicked Stade to victory.
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