Zone libre
After the successful Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria, in November 1942, the Germans occupied the Zone libre, and tried to seize the French warships in Toulon, (Operation Lila). But the three "La Galissonière"-class cruisers, "La Galissonnière", "Jean de Vienne", "Marseillaise", as most of the ships based at Toulon, were scuttled, on 27 November 1942. In 1943, the Italian Navy tried to salvage "Jean de Vienne" and "La Galissonnière", and registered them as "FR11" and "FR12". In 1944, after the Italian surrender, the Germans rendered the wrecks to the Vichy authorities, but they were sunk, following Allied bombing attacks on "Jean de Vienne" on 24 November 1943 and "La Galissonnière", on 18 April 1944. They were both scrapped post war.