Years at a time, France seems not to care particularly about its national soccer team.

(For that matter, it hardly cares about its national league, either, but I digress.)

As of tonight, however, France is one big bandwagon groaning under the strain of 66 million Frenchmen who have climbed aboard, over the past few days.

And to beat Germany tonight! Mon dieu! Life can hardly get better! Let’s take to the streets! And when (OK, if) we win on Sunday, over Portugal in the final …

As of a month or so ago … France’s national team was best remembered for its infamous “strike” and group-stage crash-out at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

In 2012, they went out in the quarterfinals at the last 16-team Euros competition, and at the 2014 World Cup the French also went out at the quarterfinals, at the hands of Germany.

Sure, the Zinedine Zidane-led bleus won the World Cup in 1998 and the Euros in 2000, but that was beginning to feel like ancien history, mon ami.

Probably the best thing the federation did was bring in Didier Deschamps, a “glue” guy on the World Cup- and Euros-winning teams — actually, he was the captain, not Zidane — nearly a generation ago.

The granite-jawed Deschamps took over after the 2012 Euros and got his team in order and pruned of it bad-news guys like Karim Benzema, who may have been blackmailing a former national team teammate over a sex tape. It also doesn’t hurt that Franck Ribery, a dark and seedy character, was ruled out of the current tournament because of an injury.

As Euro hosts, France had all the typical advantages in scheduling and favorable crowds and, as it did in 1998, it has not wasted the opportunity, so far.

It won its group by beating Romania and Albania, drew with Switzerland in a group match that didn’t matter, and then took care of two less-than-imposing opponents in the knockout stage — Ireland and Iceland.

Beating Germany, 2-0, was tougher, but France benefited from a couple of breaks, the first being Bastian Schweinsteiger’s controversial “handball” call in the box that led to the diminutive Antoine Griezmann converting a penalty.

Griezmann, France’s new darling, poked in a second goal, in the second half, and that was that. Germany, the team France love to beat (and rarely do), was vanquished.

To its credit, France had been playing — and continued to play — a defense-first game, inviting Germany to attempt to break down an 11-man front — and it could not, which was not entirely shocking, given that Germany at the moment does not have a world-class striker.

Well done, Monsieur Deschamps!

After, fans took to the streets in celebration … and that was just a warmup for what will come on Sunday, when (if) France beats Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugalâ„¢ in the final at the Stade de France.

Most of the locals expect a celebration rivaling the one that followed the World Cup championship in 1998, and I can vouch for that thing being completely crazy.

(It took a couple of us reporters nearly two hours to get back to our Paris hotel, from the Stade de France, because so many roads were blocked by people pounding on their horns, hanging out windows and shouting.)

The racket didn’t end until dawn the next day.

So, yes, France is in love with its national team again, and they love being in love over here — as the 75,000 people watching on big screens at the Paris “viewing party” on the Champ de Mars could attest.

The primary national broadcaster (TF1) will carry the final, and presumably they will hopelessly hype the final, as they did for the semi-final today, devoting nearly the whole of the broadcast to a preview of the coming game, complete with the No. 1 anchorman doing the news from the press box of the Marseille Stadium.

France has also been blessed by a tournament without any significant complications from “outside elements”, shall we say.

So, first, France wants one more incident-free match in their tournament … while winning, please.