French ship Souverain

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A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Souverain ("Sovereign"). Among them:

French ship Souverain (1757), a 74-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class. She was renamed Peuple souverain during the French Revolution.
French ship Souverain (1819), a 120-gun Océan-class ship of the line

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