This is a list of French battleships.
(perhaps need note saying something like "90s, 98s, 110s had 3 decks, 70s and 74s had 2 decks, etc.)
Sail battleships (1410-1840)
These will be grouped into classes
- Marie la Cordeliere - burnt 1512
- Invincible 54 - captured by Britain 17 June 1694
- Hope 70 (ex-British Hope, captured 16 April 1695)
- Hazard 52 - captured by Britain 16 November 1704
- Auguste 54 - captured by Britain July 1704
- Magnanime 74 - wrecked and scutted 10 March 1705
- Fleur-de-lis 86 - wrecked 10 March 1705
- Arrogant 60 - captured by Britain 10 March 1705
- Ardente 66 - captured by Netherlands 10 March 1705
- Marquis 56 - captured by Netherlands 10 March 1705
- Pendennis 48 (ex-British Pendennis, captured 10 March 1705)
- Content 64 - sunk December 1706
- Gloucester 64 (ex-British Gloucester, captured 26 October 1709)
- Hampshire 50 (ex-British Hampshire, captured 2 November 1709)
- Foudroyant (1724)
- Boree (1735)
- Mars (1739)
- Tonnant (1743)
- Intrepide (1747)
- Magnifique (1749)
- Duc de Bourgogne (1751)
- Hector (1752)
- Guerrier (1753)
- Diademe (1756)
- Glorieux (1756)
- Ocean (1756)
- Minotaur (1757)
- Citoyen (1763)
- Impetueux (1764) (renamed Ville de Paris)
- Conquerant (1765)
- St-Esprit (1765)
- Bourgogne (1766)
- Bretagne (1766)
- Couronne (1766)
- Languedoc (1766)
- Marseillais (1766)
- Actif (1767)
- Bien Aime (1769)
- Destin (1770)
- Fendant (1772)
- Auguste (1778)
- Hercule (1778)
- Heros (1778)
- Neptune (1778)
- Magnanime (1779)
- Northumberland (1779)
- Triomphant (1779)
- Majestueux (1780)
- Royal-Louis (1780)
- Brave (1781)
- Illustre (1781)
- Hannibal 50 (ex-British Hannibal, captured 1781)
- Orient 74 - wrecked 7 September 1782
- Bizarre 64 - wrecked 5 October 1782
- Alexandre 64 - scuttled 1782
- Temeraire (1782?)
- Jean Bart (1788)
- Tourville (1788)
- Duguay-Trouin (1788)
- Tonnant (1789)
- Etats de Bourgogne (1790) (renamed Cote d'Or, Montagne, Peuple, Ocean)
- Suffren (1791) (renamed Redoubtable)
- Sans Culotte (1791) (renamed Dauphin-Royal, Orient)
- Commerce de Marseille - captured by Britain 1792
Wooden steam battleships (1841-58)
Early iron battleships (1859-1878)
- Gloire (1859)
- Magenta
- Solferino
Pre-Dreadnoughts (1879-1910)
- Amiral Duperre (1879)
- Hoche
- Marceau
- Magenta
- Neptune
- Amiral Baudin
- Carnot
- Charles Martel
- Massena
- Brennus
- Iena (1898)
- Jaureguiberry
- Bouvet
- Charlemagne
- Gaulois
- St Louis
- Suffren
- Patrie class
- Verite class
- Liberte
- Democratie (1904)
- Justice (1904)
- Verite (1907)
- Danton class ("semi-Dreadnoughts")
- Voltaire (1909)
- Diderot (1909)
- Condorcet (1909)
- Danton (1909)
- Mirabeau (1909)
- Vergniaud (1910)
Dreadnoughts (1911-1943)
- Courbet class
- Jean Bart (1911) (renamed Ocean)
- Courbet (1911)
- Paris (1912)
- France (1912)
- Bretagne class
- Provence (1913)
- Bretagne (1913)
- Lorraine (1913)
- Normandie class (all except Bearn were scrapped after launching)
- Gascoigne (1914)
- Normandie (1914)
- Flandre (1914)
- Languedoc (1916)
- Bearn (1920) (completed as an aircraft carrier)
- Lyon class
- Duquesne (-)
- Lille (-)
- Lyon (-)
- Tourville (-)
- Dunkerque class
- Dunkerque (1935)
- Strasbourg (1936)
- Richelieu class
