Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name Latouche-Tréville in honour of the 19th century politician and admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville.
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Protée, in honour of Proteus.
Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Sibylle:
Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Hermione, in honour of Hermione, daughter of King Menelaus of Sparta and his wife, Helen of Troy.
A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Méduse, after the Medusa. The best-known is arguable the 1810 frigate Méduse, of Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa fame.
Six ships of the French navy have bourn the name Créole in honour of Creole peoples.
Five ships of the French navy have borne the name Clorinde, in honour of Clorinda in Jerusalem Delivered.
Seven ships of the French navy have borne the name Iphigénie, in honour of Iphigenia.
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Melpomène, in honour of the muse Melpomene.
Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Andromaque in honour of Andromache, wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes.
Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne the name Thétis in honour of nereid and sea nymph Thetis:
The Vengeance class was a type of large sailing frigates designed by Pierre Degay and built in Paimbœuf for the French Navy. Rated at 48 guns, the type was one of the French attempts at increasing the firepower of frigates by mounting a 24-pounder main battery, as was tried with Forfait's Romaine class. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the ships mounted 18-pounder long guns on their main gun deck while in service.
Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Diane in honour of Diana, goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature in Roman mythology. In addition, two have borne the related name Diana:
Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name of Sané, in honour of the 18th-century French engineer Jacques-Noël Sané.
A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Guerrière.
A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Astrée in honour of Astraea in Greek mythology.
Twelve ships of the French Navy have been named Cérès:
Twenty-two ships of the French Navy have borne the name Galatée or Galathée, in honour of Galatea:
Fifteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Amazone ("Amazon"):
Sixteen ships of the French Navy have borne the name Diligente ("Diligent"):
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