The following year, which was to prove to be Fouroux's final season as an international player, saw France take the Grand Slam.

[2] After retiring, having earned 27 international caps, 23 as captain, Fouroux became the coach of France shortly before the 1981 Five Nations tournament.

This finally caught up with him in 1990, when an embarrassing 12–6 defeat to Romania provided a perfect excuse for the Fédération Française de Rugby to give him the sack.

Following this he became the coach of FC Grenoble (1992–1993), whom he took to the final of the French League in 1993 with a massive pack nicknamed the mammoths.

Grenoble lost the match and Fouroux, who claimed that the game had been fixed, defected to rugby league.

[12] He promptly returned to rugby union with his hometown club FC Auch, which was facing a leadership crisis at the time, and became its president in October 1996.

[12][13] His last assignment was a brief coaching stint with Italian side L'Aquila, of which he was let go in November 2005,[14] as his unorthodox style apparently did not gel well with the organization.