The Vigilant is a strategic nuclear submarine of the French Navy.
The Royal Navy also have a SSBN in service called Vigilant.
Famous quotes containing the words french and/or vigilant:
“The French are certainly misunderstood:Mbut whether the fault is theirs, in not sufficiently explaining themselves; or speaking with that exact limitation and precision which one would expect ... or whether the fault may not be altogether on our side ... I shall not decide.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“We have a vigilant consul, Caninius, who never slept once during his entire term of office!”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)