List of French cruisers

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[edit] cruisers

  • Armorique (1862)
  • Circé (1860)
  • Flore (1869)
  • Cosmao class
    • Cosmao (1861)
    • Dupleix (1861)
  • Talisman (1862)
  • Châteaurenault (1868)
  • Linois (1867)
  • Hirondelle (1869)
  • Duguay-Trouin
  • Duquesne - struck 1901
  • Tourville - struck 1901
  • classe Lapérouse
    • Laperouse
    • D'Estaing
    • Nielly
    • Primauguet
  • classe Villars
    • Villars (1879)
    • Forfait (1879)
    • Magon (1880)
    • Roland (1882)
  • Iphigénie (1881)
  • Naïade (1881)
  • Aréthuse (1882)
  • Dubourdieu (1884)
  • Milan (1884)
  • Belliqueuse (1865)

[edit] armoured cruisers

  • Dupuy de Lôme (1890)
  • Amiral Charner class
    • Amiral Charner (1893) - sunk by torpedo 1916
    • Bruix (1894) - scrapped in 1920
    • Chanzy (1894) - sunk 1907
    • Latouche-Tréville (1892) - scrapped 1926
  • Pothuau (1895) - scrapped 1929
  • Jeanne d'Arc (1901) - scrapped 1934
  • classe Gueydon
    • Gueydon (1899) - scrapped 1942
    • Montcalm (1900) - scrapped 1943
    • Dupetit-Thouars (1901) - sunk by torpedo 1918
  • Dupleix class
    • Dupleix (1900) - scrapped 1922
    • Desaix (1901) - scrapped 1927
    • Kléber (1902) - suck by mine 1917
  • Gloire class
    • Gloire (1900)
    • Marseillaise (1900)
    • Sully (1901) - sunk 1905
    • Condé (1902)
    • Amiral Aube (1902)
  • Léon Gambetta class
    • Léon Gambetta (1901) - torpedoed 1915
    • Jules Ferry (1903)
    • Victor Hugo (1904) - scrapped 1930
  • Jules Michelet (1905)
  • Ernest Renan (1906) - struck 1931
the Waldeck-Rousseau
the Waldeck-Rousseau
  • Edgar Quinet class
    • Edgar Quinet (1907) - struck 1930
    • Waldeck-Rousseau (1908) - scrapped 1941-44
  • Mulhouse

[edit] protected cruisers and light cruisers

  • Sfax (1884) - struck 1906
  • Tage (1886) - struck 1910
  • Amiral Cécille (1888) - scraped 1919
  • Davout (1889) - struck 1910
  • Suchet (1893) - struck 1906
  • classe Forbin
    • Forbin (1888) - scraped 1921
    • Coetlogon (1888) - struck 1906
    • Surcouf (1888) - struck 1921
  • classe Troude
    • Troude (1888) - struck 1908
    • Cosmao (1889)
    • Lalande (1889)
  • classe Linois
    • Linois (1894)
    • Galilée (1896)
    • Lavoisier (1897) - struck 1920
  • classe Alger
    • Alger (1889) - Hulked 1911
    • Jean Bart (1889) - sunk 1907
    • Isly (1891) - struck 1914
  • classe Friant
    • Friant (1893) - struck 1920
    • Chasseloup Laubat (1893)
    • Bugeaud (1893) - struck 1907
  • classe Descartes
    • Descartes (1894) - struck 1920
    • Pascal (1895)
  • classe D'Assa
    • D'Assas (1896)
    • Du Chayla (1895)
    • Cassard (1896) - struck 1924
  • classe Catinat
    • Catinat (1896)
    • Protet (1898)
  • D'Entrecasteaux (1896)
  • Guichen (1897) - struck 1922
  • Chateaurenault (1898) - sunk 1917
  • classe D'Estrées
    • D'Estrées (1897) - struck 1922
    • Infernet (1899) - run aground 1910
  • Jurien de la Graviere (1899) - struck 1922
  • Pluton, sunk 1939
  • Émile Bertin
  • Duguay-Trouin class
  • La Galissonnière class
  • Jeanne d'Arc - scraped 1966
  • De Grasse - scraped 1976
  • Colbert - museum ship in Bordeaux

[edit] Heavy cruisers

[edit] Helicopter cruisers

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