Part of the Friant-class protected cruisers, preceded by Alger class and succeeded by Linois class, building ordered under the 1890 program on 17 November 1890, laid down at Arsenal de Cherbourg, France on 29 October 1891, launched on 17 April 1893, commissioned on 25 June 1895, decommissioned on 22 February 1910, stricken on 20 February 1911, hulked in 1911, converted into a distilling ship, recommissioned on 16 June 1915, sold to the French fishery Sociétè Industrielle de la grande Pêche on 25 November 1920 and abandoned in the Nouadhibou Bay, Mauritania in 1926.
Displacement 3,771 tons and as dimensions 97.5 (over all) x 13.24 x 5,84 metres or 319.11 x 43.5 x 19.2 feet. The propulsion consisted of 2 triple expansion steam engines and 20 coal fuelled water tube boilers supplying via 2 screws 9,000 ihp allowing a speed of 18.86 (trial) knots and a range if 6,000 nautical miles/10 knots. Crew numbered 331 men. The armament consisted of 6x1-16.4cm/6.5” guns, 4x1-10cm/3.9”guns, 4x1-4.7cm/1.9” guns, 11x1-3.7cm/1.5”/3pd guns and 2x1-35cm/14” torpedo tubes. The armour consisted of a 3cm/1.2”-8cm/3.1” thick deck and the conning tower was protected by 7.5cm/3”.
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