Thee All Blacks scored five tries through Sitiveni Sivivatu, Mils Muliaina, Jerome Kaino, Cory Jane and Conrad Smith and kept the French scoreless in the second half.
It was the fourth straight match that the All Blacks had not conceded a try after previous wins over Wales, Italy and England. In fact, New Zealand hasn't conceded a try in Europe since its World Cup quarter-final loss to France two years ago.
Fly-half Daniel Carter added 14 points with two penalties and four conversions.
Sextonn landed five of his seven kicks to justify his selection ahead of record scorer Ronan O'Gara and give Ireland a third straight win over the world champion Springboks, completing an unbeaten year for the Six Nations champion.
Stung by its 9-8 defeat to the Scots, Australia scored three tries in the opening 25 minutes to set up its biggest win in Cardiff since 1991.
There was less excitement at Murrayfield, where Martin Rodriguez struck a late drop goal to give Argentina a 9-6 victory over Scotland, while Italy beat Samoa 24-6 for its first victory in 14 matches.
Althoughh the Irish struggled to get the try their pressure merited, Sexton succeeded with enough of his penalties for a win that was clinched when captain Brian O'Driscoll halted a late South Africa attack with a crunching tackle.
South Africa did score the only try of the match through Schalk Burger but was lucky to keep 15 men on the field for the whole game as its discipline crumbled under pressure.
South Africa heads home with only a win over Italy to show from four tests.
Ireland dominated South Africa in the second half to overturn a 10-6 halftime deficit, taking about two thirds of possession and three quarters of the territory to force the World Cup holder into elementary errors.
Lockk Andries Bekker was lucky to stay on the field when he dropped his knee and forearm on a grounded opponent, and Sexton struck the resulting penalty to put Ireland 12-10 in front.
"We see it as a blessing that we have a world-class fly-half and an up-and-coming fly-half," Ireland coach Declan Kidney said. "We'll need both of them.
"We finished the series with a win, which is good for confidence, and we're looking forward to coming back for the Six Nations."
Digby Ioane, James Horwill and David Pocock touched down as Australia eased into an early 20-6 lead at Millennium Stadium.
"Last week we played too conservative," Australia fly-half Matt Giteau said.
"We thought we may as well go out there and throw the ball around. We had nothing to lose."
Wales fly-half Stephen Jones kept his team in the game with two more penalties, but Giteau kept scoring at the other end and replacement Tatafu Polota-Nau rounded off a sweeping attack for Australia's fourth try late on.
Giteau, who missed a last-minute conversion that would have beaten Scotland, won the man-of-the-match award with 13 points and some sparkling open play.
He had already put the Wallabies ahead with the first of his three penalties when Ioane touched down in the eighth minute.
Restored to the side at centre after recovering from a shoulder injury, Ioane got on the end of a kick from Giteau, who managed to get the ball away despite seeing a big tackle coming his way.
Leigh Halfpenny kicked from halfway to trim the deficit to 8-3 but Horwill touched down in the corner after some slick passing in open play and Pocock stretched to place the ball over the line to make it 20-6.
Australiaa withstood concerted pressure before moving play up to the other end. The ball was spread across field with two passes and Polota-Nau found the gap to go through and touch down.
Scotland was on course for an unexpected sweep of November wins when it led 6-0 at halftime through two penalties from fly-half Phil Godman.
But Argentina came back strongly and, after Rodriguez kicked two penalties to level the score, the centre dropped the winning goal in the 78th minute to clinch the Pumas' first test victory this month.
Thee South Americans, who lost to England and Wales over the past two weekends, maintained its record of not having been defeated by Scotland at Murrayfield since 1990.
It was Scotland's first loss under new coach Andy Robinson.
Luke McLean touched down for Italy in the first half at Ascoli Piceno, and referee Christophe Berdos awarded a penalty try in the closing minutes after Samoa continued to infringe at scrums on its line.
Mirco Bergamasco added eight points with two penalties and a conversion, while Craig Gower kicked a penalty and scrum-half Tito Tebaldi slotted a second-half drop goal.
The result moves Italy above Samoa into 11th in the International Rugby Board rankings, with Samoa slipping to 12th.
It was Italy's first win since they beat Argentina in Cordoba 17 months ago.
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