Might France have accepted the entire German High Seas Fleet going to Britain in exchange for German land weapons and technology?
Short answerProbably not, because France was not the only interested power; Italy and the United States also contested the postwar distribution.
NotesThe settlement after the First World War was not a bilateral British-French negotiation. French acceptance appears unlikely, and Italy and the United States also had strong views about distributing German assets and technology. Warships, land weapons, and technical knowledge were all bargaining assets with different claimants rather than one pool Britain and France could exchange privately. Coalition politics constrained even a militarily dominant naval power.