The 29-year-old made 93 appearances and scored five goals for Les Bleus, in a stellar nine-year stint that began with his debut in March 2013 and included the World Cup triumph in 2018.
Varane also helped Didier Deschamps’s side to finish as runners-up in Qatar 2022. It now transpires that World Cup final defeat to Argentina on 18 December, in one of the competition's greatest games of all time, was his last outing for his country.
Rapha shared his pride at having been able to play for France in a post on Instagram, and referred to the 2018 success in Russia as being one of the best moments of his life.