Where would France deploy a planned fleet of six ships from each of six large-destroyer classes?
Short answerThe ships would initially cover Atlantic and imperial requirements, then concentrate heavily in the Mediterranean once that theater opened.
NotesThe answer starts with wartime missions rather than a fixed peacetime basing diagram. French large destroyers would support Atlantic surface operations and protect dependencies, but an active Mediterranean war would pull most of them into that constrained and destroyer-hungry theater. Their size does not remove the need to spread them among numerous fleet tasks.