This short design discussion is useful for viewers comparing dreadnoughts across navies. The French ships receive credit for superfiring turrets, but their turrets sat across multiple levels, which complicated the baseline for gunnery calculations and made the layout less clean than the headline armament suggests. The silhouette becomes a lesson about how arrangement and gun count together shaped fighting value.
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Courbet and Bretagne layout problems
A capital-ship design aside uses the Courbet and Bretagne classes to show how turret levels complicated French gunnery and layout choices.