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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