Blanc, who took over from Raymond Domenech after France's shameful World Cup campaign, said he was delighted to be back on a football pitch, at the team's training base outside Paris.
"We spent a lot of time in offices and meetings lately and needed to do that but I don't forget that the place I'm good at, if I'm good at anything, is on the pitch," Blanc, preparing for his first match in charge, a friendly against Norway on Wednesday in Oslo, told reporters.
"The players, the staff, all want to play that match on Wednesday, all want to train and to be back on a pitch."
Blanc, needing to rebuild a team and heal a country's wounded pride, has fond memories of the Clairefontaine camp, where he prepared as a player for France's World Cup triumph on home soil in 1998.
"This morning, when I put on a tracksuit, a T-shirt of blue, white and red colours with a certain animal (the team's emblem, a rooster) on it, I felt that it was really starting at last," he said.
"I had been looking forward to that moment so much. It felt really great."
"Some of them are discovering this place (the Clairefontaine base) and I told them it had to feel like home," Blanc said.
"I told them they were here to prepare the best they could, to play football and, most of all, to enjoy themselves."
