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This is a list of French sail frigates: Number of guns is as rated; most carried some carronades or swivels also.
La Rieuse, a 30-gun
oar frigate (1674-1698)
Fight of the Poursuivante - 28th of June 1803, Louis-Philippe Crepin
- Rieuse 30 (c. 1674)
- Néréïde (1724)
- Boudeuse (Louis Antoine de Bougainville)
- Confiance 22 (Robert Surcouf)
- Revenant (Robert Surcouf)
- Vestale 36
- Gracieuse 24 (1750)
- Pléiade 26 (1755)
- Aigrette 30 (1756)
- Chimère 32 (1758)
- Diligente 30 (1761)
- Hussar (c. 1757, ex-British Hussar, captured 1762)
- Terpsichore 30 (1763)
- Belle Poule 32 (1765)
- Sultane 32 (1765)
- Blanche 32 (1766)
- Boudeuse 32 (1766)
- Dédaigneuse 32 (1766)
- Engageante 32 (1766)
- Inconstante 32 (1766)
- Atalante 32 (1767)
- Amphitrite 32 (1767)
- Cybèle 32 (1767)
- Indiscrète 34 (1767)
- Renommée 30 (1767)
- Sensible 34 (1767) - Captured by Britain 1798
- Flore 32 (1768/69?)
- Mignonne 26 (1768)
- Zéphyr 42 (1768)
- Aurore 32/34 (1769)
- Tourterelle 32 (1770)
- Alcmène 32 (1774)
- Aimable 32 (1776)
- Andromaque 32 (1777)
- Charmante 32 (1777)
- Concorde 34 (1777)
- Fortunée 32 (1777)
- Iphigénie 32 (1777)
- Magicienne 32 (1777)
- Nymphe 32 (1777)
- Sybille 32 (1777)
- Amazone 32 (1778)
- Bellone 32 (1778)
- Courageuse 32 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1799
- Gentille 36 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1795
- Fine 32 (1778)
- Fox 28 (1773, ex-British Fox, captured 1778)
- Gentille 32 (1778)
- Gloire 32 (1778)
- Junon 32 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1799
- Medée 32 (1778)
- Précieuse 32 (1778)
- Railleuse 32 (1778)
- Résolue 32 (1778)
- Surveillante 32 (1778)
- Capricieuse 38 (1779)
- Cérès 34 (1779)
- Diane 34 (1779)
- Emeraude 32 (1779)
- Fée 32 (1779)
- Friponne 38 (1779)
- Galathée 32 (1779)
- Hermione 32 (1779)
- Lutine 32 (1779)
- Néréïde 34 (1779)
- Sérieuse 32 (1779) - Sunk at the Battle of Aboukir, 1798
- Astrée 32 (1780)
- Vénus 32 (1780)
- Sibylle 40 (c. 1791) - Captured by Britain 1794
- Cléopâtre 36 - Captured by Britain 1793, renamed Oiseau
- Carmagnole 40 (1793)
- Justice 40 (1794) - Captured by Turkey 1801
- Minerve 40 (1794) - Captured by Britain 1795
- Infatigable 40 (c. 1795) - Captured by Britain 1806, renamed Immortalité
- Romaine (c. 1795)
- Badine 28
- Boudeuse
- Impérieuse 38 - Captured by Britain 1793, renamed Unité
- Sibylle 40 - Captured by Britain 1794
- Artémise 36 - Burnt at the Battle of Aboukir, 1798
- Berouse 36/40 (c. 1764, ex-Maltese Santa Maria del Pilar, captured 1798) - BU c. 1798
- Carthagenoise 40 (1782, ex-Maltese Santa Elizabetta, captured 1798) - Captured by Britain c. 1800, BU c. 1800
- Alceste 36 - Captured by Britain 1799
- Brune 22 - Captured by Turkey 1799
- Diane 40 - Captured by Britain 1800
- Africaine 40 - Captured by Britain 1801
- Egyptienne 44 - Captured by Britain 1801
- Régénérée 36 - Captured by Britain 1801, renamed Alexandria
- Success 32 (ex-British Success, captured 1801)
- Avtroil 32 (ex-Russian, captured 1809, ex-Swedish, captured 1789/90)
- Corcyre 44 (ex-Russian Legkii, captured 1809) - Reduced to 26 guns c. 1810, captured by Britain 1811
- Iphigénie 40 (c. 1809) - Captured by Britain 1814, renamed Gloire
- Créole 40
- Bravoure 36
- Cornélie 40
- Sirène 36
- Favorite 40 - Scuttled at Battle of Lissa 1811
- Pomone 40 - Captured by Britain 1811
- Pauline 40
- Flore 40
- Uranie 40 - Scuttled 1814
- Danaé 40
- Topaze 36
- Adrienne
- Pénélope
- Thémis 40
- Junon
- Sirène 60 (2-decker) - French flagship at the Battle of Navarino, 1827
- Armide 42
- Fleur-de-lys
- Iphigénie
- Vestale
- Amphitrite
- Duchesse de Berry
- Didon
- Belle Poule 44
- Semillante 36
- Berceau 32
- Andromaque 56
- Belle Poule 56
- Didon 56
- Forte 56
- Independante 56
- Iphigenie 56
- Perseverante 56
- Uranie 56
- Vengeance 56
- Alceste 52
- Andromede 52
- Nemesis 52
- Nereide 52
- Poursuivante 52
- Sibylle 52
- Sirene 52
- Virginie 52
- Africaine 42
- Algerie 42
- Constitution 42
- Erigone 42
- Heliopolis 42
- Isis 42
- Jeanne d'Arc 42
- Penelope 42
- Psyche 42
- Cleopatre 38
- Flore 30
- Bienvenue 32
- Bellone 34
