An item referred to the magazine International Revue über die gesamten A. und F. dated February 1913 reporting that the quadruple gun turrets were to be used for the new French battleships. The many negative commentaries however influenced the design while each turret was now to be divided with an armoured vertical bulkhead into two parts each with 2 guns.(1)
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1. The Normandie-class consisting of the Normandie, Flandre, Gacogne, Languedoc and Béarn of which just the latter was completed although as an aircraft carrier. preceded by the Bretagne-class and succeeded by the never realized Lyon-class and the realized Dunkerque-class.
