List of cruisers of France

Unprotected cruisers

 * FRENCH CRUISER Circé (1860)
 * Cosmao-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CORVETTE Cosmao (1861)
 * FRENCH CORVETTE Dupleix (1861)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Armorique (1862)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Talisman (1862)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Flore (1869)
 * Limier-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Limier (1866)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Hamelin (1866)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Volta (1867)
 * FRENCH CRUISER L'Hermitte (1867)
 * FRENCH CRUISER D'Estrées (1867)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Châteaurenault (1868)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Linois (1867)
 * Infernet-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Infernet (1871)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Dupetit-Thouars (1874)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Champlain (1872)
 * FRENCH CRUISER La Clocheterie (1872)
 * Sané-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Sané (1869)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Fabert (1874)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Seignelay (1874)
 * Bourayne-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Bourayne (1869)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Segond (1869)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Dayot (1869)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Ducouëdic (1869)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Kersaint (1869)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Vaudreuil (1870)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Hugon (1872)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Beautemps-Beaupré (1872)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Duchaffault (1872)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Kerguelen (1872)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Hirondelle (1869)
 * Rigault de Genouilly-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Rigault de Genouilly (1876)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Éclaireur (1877)




 * Duquesne-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Duquesne (1876) – struck 1901
 * FRENCH CRUISER Tourville (1876) – struck 1901
 * FRENCH CRUISER Duguay-Trouin (1877)
 * Lapérouse-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Lapérouse (1877) – wrecked 1898
 * FRENCH CRUISER D'Estaing (1879)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Nielly (1880)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Primauguet (1882)
 * Villars-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Villars (1879)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Forfait (1879)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Magon (1880)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Roland (1882)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Iphigénie (1881) - struck 1901
 * FRENCH CRUISER Naïade (1881)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Aréthuse (1882)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Dubourdieu (1884)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Milan (1885)

Torpedo cruisers



 * Condor-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Condor (1885)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Epervier (1886)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Faucon (1887)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Vautour (1889)
 * Wattignies-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Wattignies (1891)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Fleurus (1893)
 * D'Iberville-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER D'Iberville (1892)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Cassini (1894)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Casabianca (1895)

Protected cruisers



 * FRENCH CRUISER Sfax (1884) – struck 1906
 * FRENCH CRUISER Tage (1886) – struck 1910
 * FRENCH CRUISER Amiral Cécille (1888) – scrapped 1919
 * FRENCH CRUISER Davout (1889) – struck 1910
 * FRENCH CRUISER Suchet (1893) – struck 1906
 * Forbin-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Forbin (1888) – scrapped 1921
 * FRENCH CRUISER Coëtlogon (1888) – struck 1906
 * FRENCH CRUISER Surcouf (1888) – struck 1921
 * Troude-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Troude (1888) – struck 1908
 * FRENCH CRUISER Cosmao (1889) - struck 1922
 * FRENCH CRUISER Lalande (1889) - struck 1912
 * Jean Bart-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Jean Bart (1889) – sunk 1907
 * FRENCH CRUISER Isly (1891) – struck 1914
 * FRENCH CRUISER Alger (1889) – hulked 1911
 * Friant-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Friant (1893) – struck 1920
 * FRENCH CRUISER Chasseloup-Laubat (1893)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Bugeaud (1893) – struck 1907
 * Linois-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Linois (1894) - struck 1910
 * FRENCH CRUISER Galilée (1896) - struck 1911
 * FRENCH CRUISER Lavoisier (1897) – struck 1920
 * Descartes-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Descartes (1894) – struck 1920
 * FRENCH CRUISER Pascal (1895) - struck 1911
 * D'Assas-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER D'Assas (1896) - struck 1914
 * FRENCH CRUISER Du Chayla (1895) - struck 1921
 * FRENCH CRUISER Cassard (1896) – struck 1924
 * Catinat-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Catinat (1896) - struck 1911
 * FRENCH CRUISER Protet (1898) - struck 1910
 * FRENCH CRUISER D'Entrecasteaux (1896) - sold to Poland 1927; struck 1942
 * FRENCH CRUISER Guichen (1897) – struck 1922
 * FRENCH CRUISER Châteaurenault (1898) – sunk 1917
 * D'Estrées-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER D'Estrées (1897) – struck 1922
 * FRENCH CRUISER Infernet (1899) – ran aground 1910
 * FRENCH CRUISER Jurien de la Gravière (1899) – struck 1922

Armoured cruisers

 * FRENCH CRUISER Dupuy de Lôme (1890)
 * Amiral Charner-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Amiral Charner (1893) – sunk by torpedo 1916
 * FRENCH CRUISER Bruix (1894) – scrapped in 1920
 * FRENCH CRUISER Chanzy (1894) – wrecked 1907
 * FRENCH CRUISER Latouche-Tréville (1892) – scrapped 1926
 * FRENCH CRUISER Pothuau (1895) – scrapped 1929
 * FRENCH CRUISER Jeanne d'Arc – scrapped 1934
 * Gueydon-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Gueydon (1899) – sunk 1944
 * FRENCH CRUISER Montcalm (1900) – scrapped 1943
 * FRENCH CRUISER Dupetit-Thouars (1901) – sunk by torpedo 1918
 * Dupleix-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Dupleix – scrapped 1922
 * FRENCH CRUISER Desaix (1901) – scrapped 1927
 * FRENCH CRUISER Kléber (1902) – sunk by mine 1917
 * Gloire-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Gloire
 * FRENCH CRUISER Marseillaise
 * FRENCH CRUISER Sully (1901) – sunk 1905
 * FRENCH CRUISER Condé (1902)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Amiral Aube (1902)
 * Léon Gambetta-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Léon Gambetta (1901) – torpedoed 1915
 * FRENCH CRUISER Jules Ferry (1903) – struck 1927
 * FRENCH CRUISER Victor Hugo (1904) – scrapped 1930
 * FRENCH CRUISER Jules Michelet (1905)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Ernest Renan (1906) – struck 1931
 * Edgar Quinet-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Edgar Quinet (1907) – struck 1930
 * FRENCH CRUISER Waldeck-Rousseau (1908) – destroyed 1943

Light cruisers

 * La Motte-Picquet-class cruiser (1912) – (ten planned but not ordered)
 * Mulhouse (1920) – struck 1933
 * FRENCH CRUISER Metz (1920)
 * Colmar (1920)
 * Strasbourg (1920)
 * Thionville (1920)
 * Duguay-Trouin-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Duguay-Trouin (1923) – scrapped 1952
 * FRENCH CRUISER La Motte-Picquet (1924) – sunk 12 January 1945
 * FRENCH CRUISER Primauguet – burnt out after Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942.
 * FRENCH CRUISER Jeanne d'Arc – scrapped 1966
 * FRENCH CRUISER Émile Bertin (1933) – struck 1959
 * La Galissonnière-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER La Galissonnière (1933) – scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 12, sunk by bombing 18 August 1944.
 * FRENCH CRUISER Jean de Vienne (1935)– scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 11, wrecked by bombing 24 November 1943.
 * FRENCH CRUISER Marseillaise – scuttled 27 November 1942.
 * FRENCH CRUISER Gloire – scrapped 1958
 * FRENCH CRUISER Montcalm (1933) – hulked 1958 and scrapped 1970
 * FRENCH CRUISER Georges Leygues (1936) – scrapped 1959
 * De Grasse-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER De Grasse (1946) – scrapped 1976
 * Châteaurenault - cancelled 1939
 * Guichen - cancelled 1939
 * FRENCH CRUISER Châteaurenault (1948) – scrapped 1979
 * FRENCH CRUISER Guichen (1948) – scrapped 1982
 * FRENCH CRUISER Colbert (1956) – scrapped 2016

Heavy cruisers

 * Duquesne-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Duquesne (1925) – scrapped 1955
 * FRENCH CRUISER Tourville (1926) – scrapped 1962
 * Suffren-class cruiser
 * FRENCH CRUISER Suffren (1927) – scrapped 1974
 * FRENCH CRUISER Colbert – scuttled 1942
 * FRENCH CRUISER Foch (1929) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
 * FRENCH CRUISER Dupleix (1930) – scuttled 1942
 * FRENCH CRUISER Algérie (1932) – scuttled 1942
 * Saint-Louis-class cruiser (1939) – (six planned but not ordered)
 * Saint-Louis
 * Henri IV
 * Charlemagne
 * Brennus
 * Charles Martel
 *  Vercingetorix

Helicopter cruisers

 * FRENCH CRUISER Jeanne d'Arc (1961) – decommissioned 2010