List of cruisers of France

Unprotected cruisers edit

Painting of Duquesne

Wattignies in the mid-1890s

Sfax, the first French protected cruiser, early in her career

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, protected cruiser, 1896-1911

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

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 cruiser seen from the Russian yacht Standart, circa 1912-13

Waldeck-Rousseau

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^[1]
- Duguay-Trouin (1923) – scrapped 1952^[2]
- La Motte-Picquet (1924) – sunk 12 January 1945^[2]
- Primauguet (1924) – burnt out after Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942.^[3]
Jeanne d'Arc (1930)^[4] – scrapped 1966^[5]
Émile Bertin (1933)^[6] – struck 1959^[7]
La Galissonnière class^[8]
- La Galissonnière (1933) – scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 12, sunk by bombing 18 August 1944.^[9]
- Jean de Vienne (1935)– scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 11, wrecked by bombing 24 November 1943.^[9]
- Marseillaise (1935) – scuttled 27 November 1942.^[9]
- Gloire (1935) – scrapped 1958^[10]
- Montcalm (1933) – hulked 1958 and scrapped 1970^[5]
- Georges Leygues (1936) – scrapped 1959^[10]
De Grasse class^[11]
- De Grasse (1946) – scrapped 1976^[12]
- Châteaurenault - cancelled 1939^[13]
- Guichen - cancelled 1939^[13]
Châteaurenault (1948) – scrapped 1979
Guichen (1948) – scrapped 1982
Colbert (1956) – scrapped 2016

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

Jordan, John; Moulin, Jean (2013). French Cruisers 1922 – 1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-133-5.
Whitley, M. J. (1999). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Brockhampton Press. ISBN 1-86019-8740.