Churchill was certainly not at ease thinking what the Germans could have done with the Richelieu, or complete the Jean Bart. The defeat on land, soon after Italy declared on France in June 1940, put forward the question of its fate. In 1939, the French capital ship force was in Europe only second to Great Britain, dwarfing the Kriegsmarine and a serious threat to the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean. Each iteration brought innovations in concept and design. In thirty years, from her first dreadnought battleship, Courbet, started late, in 1910 to the Jean Bart and Gascogne project in 1940, France only had produced four classes of battleships, the Courbet, Bretagne, Dunkerque, and Richelieu, transitioning from dreadnought to super dreadnought, and semi-battlecruiser to fast battleship, respectively. France, 11 Battleships (1910-1940) Introduction
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