When French shipyards reshape naval requirements

How did French shipyards respond to a navy's baseline design requirements?

They often asserted their own design judgment, sometimes with good technical reason, but the resulting tension caused procurement problems for the French Navy.

French shipbuilders were notorious for treating official requirements as suggestions. Yard personnel could plausibly claim superior knowledge of what their facilities were able to construct. The navy still had to define the operational requirements. The exchange captures a recurring procurement problem: industrial judgment and naval authority could each be defensible while pulling a French design in different directions.