title: List of cruisers of France
text: # List of cruisers of France
  
  ## Unprotected cruisers
  
  * Circé (1860)
  * Cosmao class
     * Cosmao (1861)
     * Dupleix (1861)
  * Armorique (1862)
  * Talisman (1862)
  * Flore (1869)
  * Limier class
     * Limier (1866)
     * Hamelin (1866)
     * Volta (1867)
     * L'Hermitte (1867)
     * D'Estrées (1867)
  * Châteaurenault (1868)
  * Linois (1867)
  * Infernet class
     * Infernet (1871)
     * Dupetit-Thouars (1874)
     * Champlain (1872)
     * La Clocheterie (1872)
  * Sané class
     * Sané (1869)
     * Fabert (1874)
     * Seignelay (1874)
  * Bourayne class
     * Bourayne (1869)
     * Segond (1869)
     * Dayot (1869)
     * Ducouëdic (1869)
     * Kersaint (1869)
     * Vaudreuil (1870)
     * Hugon (1872)
     * Beautemps-Beaupré (1872)
     * Duchaffault (1872)
     * Kerguelen (1872)
  * Hirondelle (1869)
  * Rigault de Genouilly class
     * Rigault de Genouilly (1876)
     * Éclaireur (1877)
  * Duquesne class
     * Duquesne (1876) – struck 1901
     * Tourville (1876) – struck 1901
  * Duguay-Trouin (1877)
  * Lapérouse class
     * Lapérouse (1877) – wrecked 1898
     * D'Estaing (1879)
     * Nielly (1880)
     * Primauguet (1882)
  * Villars class
     * Villars (1879)
     * Forfait (1879)
     * Magon (1880)
     * Roland (1882)
  * Iphigénie (1881) - struck 1901
  * Naïade (1881)
  * Aréthuse (1882)
  * Dubourdieu (1884)
  * Milan (1885)
  
  ## Torpedo cruisers
  
  * Condor class
     * Condor (1885)
     * Epervier (1886)
     * Faucon (1887)
     * Vautour (1889)
  * Wattignies class
     * Wattignies (1891)
     * Fleurus (1893)
  * D'Iberville class
     * D'Iberville (1892)
     * Cassini (1894)
     * Casabianca (1895)
  
  ## Protected cruisers
  
  * Sfax (1884) – struck 1906
  * Tage (1886) – struck 1910
  * Amiral Cécille (1888) – scrapped 1919
  * Davout (1889) – struck 1910
  * Suchet (1893) – struck 1906
  * Forbin class
     * Forbin (1888) – scrapped 1921
     * Coëtlogon (1888) – struck 1906
     * Surcouf (1888) – struck 1921
  * Troude class
     * Troude (1888) – struck 1908
     * Cosmao (1889) - struck 1922
     * Lalande (1889) - struck 1912
  * Jean Bart class
     * Jean Bart (1889) – sunk 1907
     * Isly (1891) – struck 1914
  * Alger (1889) – hulked 1911
  * Friant class
     * Friant (1893) – struck 1920
     * Chasseloup-Laubat (1893)
     * Bugeaud (1893) – struck 1907
  * Linois class
     * Linois (1894) - struck 1910
     * Galilée (1896) - struck 1911
     * Lavoisier (1897) – struck 1920
  * Descartes class
     * Descartes (1894) – struck 1920
     * Pascal (1895) - struck 1911
  * D'Assas class
     * D'Assas (1896) - struck 1914
     * Du Chayla (1895) - struck 1921
     * Cassard (1896) – struck 1924
  * Catinat class
     * Catinat (1896) - struck 1911
     * Protet (1898) - struck 1910
  * D'Entrecasteaux (1896) - sold to Poland 1927; struck 1942
  * Guichen (1897) – struck 1922
  * Châteaurenault (1898) – sunk 1917
  * D'Estrées class
     * D'Estrées (1897) – struck 1922
     * Infernet (1899) – ran aground 1910
  * Jurien de la Gravière (1899) – struck 1922
  
  ## Armoured cruisers
  
  * Dupuy de Lôme (1890)
  * Amiral Charner class
     * Amiral Charner (1893) – sunk by torpedo 1916
     * Bruix (1894) – scrapped in 1920
     * Chanzy (1894) – wrecked 1907
     * Latouche-Tréville (1892) – scrapped 1926
  * Pothuau (1895) – scrapped 1929
  * Jeanne d'Arc (1899) – scrapped 1934
  * Gueydon class
     * Gueydon (1899) – sunk 1944
     * Montcalm (1900) – scrapped 1943
     * Dupetit-Thouars (1901) – sunk by torpedo 1918
  * Dupleix class
     * Dupleix (1900) – scrapped 1922
     * Desaix (1901) – scrapped 1927
     * Kléber (1902) – sunk 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) – struck 1927
     * Victor Hugo (1904) – scrapped 1930
  * Jules Michelet (1905)
  * Ernest Renan (1906) – struck 1931
  * Edgar Quinet class
     * Edgar Quinet (1907) – struck 1930
     * Waldeck-Rousseau (1908) – destroyed 1943
  
  ## Light cruisers
  
  * La Motte-Picquet class (1912) – (ten planned but not ordered)
  * Mulhouse (1920) – struck 1933
  * Metz (1920)
  * Colmar (1920)
  * Strasbourg (1920)
  * Thionville (1920)
  * Duguay-Trouin class
     * Duguay-Trouin (1923) – scrapped 1952
     * La Motte-Picquet (1924) – sunk 12 January 1945
     * Primauguet (1924) – burnt out after Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942.
  * Jeanne d'Arc (1930) – scrapped 1966
  * Émile Bertin (1933) – struck 1959
  * La Galissonnière class
     * La Galissonnière (1933) – scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 12, sunk by bombing 18 August 1944.
     * Jean de Vienne (1935)– scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 11, wrecked by bombing 24 November 1943.
     * Marseillaise (1935) – scuttled 27 November 1942.
     * Gloire (1935) – scrapped 1958
     * Montcalm (1933) – hulked 1958 and scrapped 1970
     * Georges Leygues (1936) – scrapped 1959
  * De Grasse class
     * De Grasse (1946) – scrapped 1976
     * Châteaurenault - cancelled 1939
     * Guichen - cancelled 1939
  * Châteaurenault (1948) – scrapped 1979
  * Guichen (1948) – scrapped 1982
  * Colbert (1956) – scrapped 2016
  
  ## Heavy cruisers
  
  * Duquesne class
     * Duquesne (1925) – scrapped 1955
     * Tourville (1926) – scrapped 1962
  * Suffren class
     * Suffren (1927) – scrapped 1974
     * Colbert (1928) – scuttled 1942
     * Foch (1929) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
     * Dupleix (1930) – scuttled 1942
  * Algérie (1932) – scuttled 1942
  * Saint-Louis class (1939) – (six planned but not ordered)
     * Saint-Louis
     * Henri IV
     * Charlemagne
     * Brennus
     * Charles Martel
     * Vercingetorix
  
  ## Helicopter cruisers
  
  * Jeanne d'Arc (1961) – decommissioned 2010
  