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This is a list of French sail frigates: Number of guns is as rated; most carried some carronades or swivels also.

La Rieuse, a 30-gun oar frigate (1674-1698)

Boudeuse, of Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Fight of the Poursuivante - 28th of June 1803, Louis-Philippe Crepin

• Rieuse 30 (c. 1674)
• Néréïde (1724)
• Boudeuse (Louis Antoine de Bougainville)
• Confiance 22 (Robert Surcouf)
• Revenant (Robert Surcouf)
• Vestale 36
• Gracieuse 24 (1750)
• Pléiade 26 (1755)
• Aigrette 30 (1756)
• Chimère 32 (1758)
• Diligente 30 (1761)
• Hussar (c. 1757, ex-British Hussar, captured 1762)
• Terpsichore 30 (1763)
• Belle Poule 32 (1765)
• Sultane 32 (1765)
• Blanche 32 (1766)
• Boudeuse 32 (1766)
• Dédaigneuse 32 (1766)
• Engageante 32 (1766)
• Inconstante 32 (1766)
• Atalante 32 (1767)
• Amphitrite 32 (1767)
• Cybèle 32 (1767)
• Indiscrète 34 (1767)
• Renommée 30 (1767)
• Sensible 34 (1767) - Captured by Britain 1798
• Flore 32 (1768/69?)
• Mignonne 26 (1768)
• Zéphyr 42 (1768)
• Aurore 32/34 (1769)
• Tourterelle 32 (1770)
• Alcmène 32 (1774)
• Aimable 32 (1776)
• Andromaque 32 (1777)
• Charmante 32 (1777)
• Concorde 34 (1777)
• Fortunée 32 (1777)
• Iphigénie 32 (1777)
• Magicienne 32 (1777)
• Nymphe 32 (1777)
• Sybille 32 (1777)
• Amazone 32 (1778)
• Bellone 32 (1778)
• Courageuse 32 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1799
• Gentille 36 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1795
• Fine 32 (1778)
• Fox 28 (1773, ex-British Fox, captured 1778)
• Gentille 32 (1778)
• Gloire 32 (1778)
• Junon 32 (1778) - Captured by Britain 1799
• Medée 32 (1778)
• Précieuse 32 (1778)
• Railleuse 32 (1778)
• Résolue 32 (1778)
• Surveillante 32 (1778)
• Capricieuse 38 (1779)
• Cérès 34 (1779)
• Diane 34 (1779)
• Emeraude 32 (1779)
• Fée 32 (1779)
• Friponne 38 (1779)
• Galathée 32 (1779)
• Hermione 32 (1779)
• Lutine 32 (1779)
• Néréïde 34 (1779)
• Sérieuse 32 (1779) - Sunk at the Battle of Aboukir, 1798
• Astrée 32 (1780)
• Cléopâtre 36 - Captured by Britain 1793, renamed Oiseau.

18-pounder armed frigates.

• Until 1779 the standard armament on the frigate was the 12-pounder gun, but in that year Britain and France independently developed heavy frigates with a main battery of either 26 or 28 x 18-pounder guns. From 1786 the standard designs of Jacques-Noël Sané became predominant and - while other classes of frigate were built, Sané designs formed the vast majority of frigates built up to 1814.

• La Hébé Class (design by Jacques-Noël Sané, with 26 x 18pdr guns).
  • La Vénus 34 guns (launched 1782 at Brest) - wrecked 1788 in the Indian Ocean..
  • La Hébé 38 guns (launched 1782 at Saint-Malo) - captured by Britain 1782.
  • La Dryade 36 guns (launched 1783 at Saint-Malo) - condemned 1801 and BU.
  • La Proserpine 36 guns (launched 1785 at Brest) - captured by Britain 1796.
  • La Sibylle 36 guns (launched 1791 at Toulon) - captured by Britain 1794.
  • La Carmagnole 38 guns (launched 1793 at Brest) - wrecked at Vlissingen 1800.
• La Danae Class (design by Charles Segonday-Duvernet, with 26 x 18pdr guns).
  • La Danae 36 guns (launched 1782 at Lorient) - deleted 1796 or later.
  • La Méduse 36 guns (launched 1782 at Lorient) - burnt by accident 1797.
  • La Didon 36 guns (launched 1785 at Lorient) - burnt at Guadeloupe 1792.
• Justice 40 (1794) - Captured by Turkey 1801
• Minerve 40 (1794) - Captured by Britain 1795
• Infatigable 40 (c. 1795) - Captured by Britain 1806, renamed Immortalité
• Romaine (c. 1795)
• Muiron (1796)
• Badine 28
• Boudeuse
• Impérieuse 38 - Captured by Britain 1793, renamed Unité

• Artémise 36 - Burnt at the Battle of Aboukir, 1798
• Berouse 36/40 (c. 1764, ex-Maltese Santa Maria del Pilar, captured 1798) - BU c. 1798
• Carthagenoise 40 (1782, ex-Maltese Santa Elizabetta, captured 1798) - Captured by Britain c. 1800, BU c. 1800
• Alceste 36 - Captured by Britain 1799
• Brune 22 - Captured by Turkey 1799
• Diane 40 - Captured by Britain 1800
• Africaine 40 - Captured by Britain 1801
• Egyptienne 44 - Captured by Britain 1801
• Régénérée 36 - Captured by Britain 1801, renamed Alexandria
• Success 32 (ex-British Success, captured 1801)
• Avtroil 32 (ex-Russian, captured 1809, ex-Swedish, captured 1789/90)
• Corcyre 44 (ex-Russian Legkii, captured 1809) - Reduced to 26 guns c. 1810, captured by Britain 1811
• Iphigénie 40 (c. 1809) - Captured by Britain 1814, renamed Gloire
• Créole 40
• Bravoure 36
• Cornélie 40
• Sirène 36
• Favorite 40 - Scuttled at Battle of Lissa 1811
• Pomone 40 - Captured by Britain 1811
• Pauline 40
• Flore 40
• Uranie 40 - Scuttled 1814
• Danaé 40
• Topaze 36
• Adrienne
• Pénélope
• Thémis 40
• Junon
• Sirène 60 (2-decker) - French flagship at the Battle of Navarino, 1827
• Armide 42
• Fleur-de-lys
• Iphigénie
• Vestale
• Amphitrite
• Duchesse de Berry
• Didon
• Belle Poule 44
• Semillante 36 - Lost in the sea near Lavezzi (FRA) - 15/02/1855
• Berceau 32
• Andromaque 56
• Belle Poule 56
• Didon 56
• Forte 56
• Independante 56
• Iphigenie 56
• Perseverante 56
• Uranie 56
• Vengeance 56
• Alceste 52
• Andromede 52
• Nemesis 52
• Nereide 52
• Poursuivante 52
• Sibylle 52
• Sirene 52
• Virginie 52
• Africaine 42
• Algerie 42
• Constitution 42
• Erigone 42
• Heliopolis 42
• Isis 42
• Jeanne d'Arc 42
• Penelope 42
• Psyche 42
• Cleopatre 38
• Flore 30
• Bienvenue 32
• Bellone 34

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