List of Aircraft Carriers By Country - France

France

Active:

  • Charles de Gaulle : aircraft carrier in service since 2001

Retired:

  • Béarn : converted Normandie class battleship in service from 1927 to 1948
  • Dixmude : Avenger class escort carrier, ex-HMS Biter (D97), in service from 1945 to 1951
  • Arromanches : Colossus class light aircraft carrier in service from 1946 to 1974
  • Independence class
    • La Fayette : light aircraft carrier in service from 1951 to 1963
    • Bois Belleau : light aircraft carrier in service from 1953 to 1960
  • Clemenceau class
    • Clemenceau : aircraft carrier in service from 1961 to 1997
    • Foch : aircraft carrier in service from 1963 to 2000

Never completed:

  • Engageante : Friponne class sloop planned for conversion but not completed
  • Conquerante : Valliante class sloop planned for conversion but not completed
  • Joffre class
    • Joffre : carrier construction cancelled in 1940
    • Painleve : carrier plan cancelled in 1940
  • Verdun : attack carrier development cancelled in 1961
  • PH 75: projected two nuclear powered helicopter carrier program during the 1970s
    • Bretagne: STOVL aircraft carrier
    • Provence: STOVL aircraft carrier
  • PA 2
    • Georges Pompidou : (tentative name) modified version of UK CVF design.
    • Richelieu : modified version of Thales UK/BMT design for the future British Queen Elizabeth class (formerly CVF).

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