List of cruisers of France
French armoured cruiser Jules Michelet, carrying the Governor-General of French Indochina, mooring in the harbor of Tanjung Priok, Batavia, April 1929
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Unprotected cruisers
- Circé (1860)
- Cosmao class
- Cosmao (1861)
- Dupleix (1861)
- Armorique (1862)
- Talisman (1862)
- Linois (1867)
- Châteaurenault (1868)
- Flore (1869)
- Hirondelle (1869)
- Duguay-Trouin (1873)
- Duquesne (1876) – struck 1901
- Tourville (1876) – struck 1901
- 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
Wattignies in the mid-1890s
- Condor class
- Condor (1885)
- Epervier (1886)
- Faucon (1887)
- Vautour (1889)
- Wattignies class
- Wattignies (1891)
- Fleurus (1893)
Protected cruisers
- Sfax (1884) – struck 1906
- Tage (1886) – struck 1910
- Amiral Cécille (1888) – scrapped 1919
The 1888 French cruiser Amiral Cécille.
- Davout (1889) – struck 1910
- Suchet (1893) – struck 1906
- Forbin class
- Troude class
- Alger class
- Friant class
- Friant (1893) – struck 1920
- Chasseloup-Laubat (1893)
- Bugeaud (1893) – struck 1907
- Linois class
- Descartes class
- D'Assas class
Catinat, protected cruiser, 1896-1911
- Catinat class
- D'Entrecasteaux (1896)
- Guichen (1897) – struck 1922
- Châteaurenault (1898) – sunk 1917
- D'Estrées class
- 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) – sunk 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
- 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
Waldeck-Rousseau
- 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 1945
- Primauguet (1924) – ran aground 1942
- Jeanne d'Arc (1930) – scrapped 1966
- Émile Bertin (1933) – struck 1959
- La Galissonnière class
- La Galissonnière (1933) – sunk 1944
- Jean de Vienne (1935) – sunk 1943
- Marseillaise (1935) – scuttled 1942
- Gloire (1935) – scrapped 1958
- Montcalm (1933) – scrapped 1970
- Georges Leygues (1936) – scrapped 1959
- De Grasse class
- De Grasse (1946) – scrapped 1976
- Châteaurenault - cancelled 1940
- Guichen - cancelled 1940
- Colbert (1956) – scrapped 2016
Heavy cruisers
- Duquesne class
- Suffren class
- Suffren (1927) – scrapped 1974
- Colbert (1928) – scuttled 1942
- Foch (1929) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
- Dupleix (1930) – scuttled 1942
- Algérie (1932) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
- 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
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