  Battleships of France
Gloire class - Broadside ironclads.
Couronne - Broadside ironclad.
Magenta class - Broadside ironclads.
Provence class - Broadside ironclads.
Océan class - Central battery and barbette ships.
Friedland - Central battery and barbette ship. Richelieu - Central battery and barbette ship.
Colbert class - Central battery and barbette ships.
Redoutable - Central battery and barbette ship.
Dévastation class - Central battery and barbette ships.
Amiral Duperré - Barbette ship.
Amiral Baudin class - Barbette ships (Hoche was built to an altered design and was a turret & barbette ship).
Marceau class - Barbette ships.
Brennus - Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Charles Martel - Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Carnot - Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Jauréguiberry - Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Masséna - Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Bouvet - Pre-Dreadnought battleship.
Charlemagne class - Pre-Dreadnought battleships.
Iéna - Pre-Dreadnought battleship. Suffren - Pre-Dreadnought battleship.
République class - Having taken five years to complete, the République class had been rendered obsolete by H.M.S. Dreadnought by the time they entered service.
Liberté class - Pre-Dreadnought battleships.
Danton class - An intermediate class between pre-Dreadnought and Dreadnought type designs, France persisted with building them even after most other nations had abandoned the concept.
Courbet class - France's first Dreadnoughts, although reverting to orthodox practice of casemated secondary armament, contained a number of features ahead of British and American design.
Bretagne class - Similar in size to the Courbet Class, but with a heavier main armament.
Dunkerque class - The first battleships to mount the main armament in quadruple turrets.
Richelieu class - An enlarged Dunkerque, the Richelieu class fought for both the Allies and the Axis during World War II.
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