Design
An earlier vessel, also named Brennus, was laid down in 1884 and cancelled under the tenure of Admiral Théophile Aube. The vessel, along with a sister ship named Charles Martel, was a modified version of the Marceau-class ironclad battleships. After Aube's retirement, the plans for the ships were reworked entirely for the ships actually completed, though they are sometimes conflated with the earlier, cancelled vessels. This confusion may be a result of the same shipyard working on both of the ships named Brennus, along with use of material assembled for the first vessel to build the second. The two pairs of ships were, nevertheless, distinct vessels. The second Brennus was ordered in 1888.
Brennus was the first pre-dreadnought style battleship built in the French Navy; the previous Magenta class ships were barbette ships, a type of ironclad battleship. Brennus formed the basis for the subsequent group of five broadly similar battleships built to the same design specifications, begun with Charles Martel, though they reverted to the armament layout of the earlier Magentas which saw the main guns distributed in single turrets in a lozenge pattern.
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