Were eighteen interwar French cruisers a large program?

Was building eighteen interwar cruisers a large program by contemporary standards?

It was substantial but not large beside other major navies, and its dispersion across five yards made the program less efficient.

Eighteen ships were meaningful, especially for a navy serving a global empire. The total was not exceptionally large compared with British, American, or Italian output. The more revealing feature was that France spread this moderate program across many yards rather than building a highly specialized production line. That dispersion preserved work and political constituencies, but it denied Brest and Lorient the full gains of repeated cruiser construction.