The school mattered beyond France's success or failure in applying it. Its advocates, engineers, and authors continued trying to solve warfare through technology, and their extensive writing carried the debate beyond France. Those publications helped start a French-Italian theoretical race and encouraged designers such as Vittorio Cuniberti to advance competing concepts. The Jeune Ecole became one catalyst in the international debate over the shape of modern fleets and warships.
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Jeune Ecole ideas influence the wider design debate
French Jeune Ecole writing helped stimulate a broader theoretical contest that included Italian designers such as Vittorio Cuniberti.