"D'Assas" kirasi yakanga iri kuvandudzwa pamusoro pe "Friant" dhizaini; ivo vakatakura zvombo zvakafanana pahukuru hwakaenzana hwechikepe, asi nekuvandudzwa kwekudzivirira nhumbi dzokurwa. Zvose zvitatu zvikepe zvakatanga basa muMediterranean Squadron mukupera kwema1890, kunyange zvazvo "D'Assas" yakazoendeswa kuNorthern Squadron muna 1901 uyezve kuFrench Indochina muna 1904. "Du Chayla" akatsigira kumhara kweamphibious muFrench Morocco
muna 1907 uye "Cassard" akabatana naye ikoko gore rakatevera racho. "D'Assas" akaraswa muna 1914, asi dzimwe nhengo mbiri dzekirasi dzakaona basa mukati meHondo yeNyika I, zvikurukuru dzichifambisa Atlantic nokuda kwevatengesi veGermany. Zvose zviri zviviri zvikepe zvakaparadzwa zvishoma mukupera kwehondo uye "Cassard" yakava ngarava yekudzidzira pfuti apo "Du Chayla" yakaramba iri mubasa rinoshanda. Akatora rutivi mukupindira kweAllied muRussia Civil War muna 1919 asati abviswa mubhuku muna 1921, apo "Cassard" akaramba ari mubasa kusvikira 1924, apo iyewo akarohwa. "Cassard" yakatengeswa kuti ishandiswe gore rakatevera uye "Du Chayla" pakupedzisira yakaparadzwa muna 1933.