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FS Edgar Quinet was an Edgar Quinet-class armored cruiser of the French Navy built in the early 20th century .

After commissioning, the ship was attached to the 1st light cruiser pennant of the French Mediterranean squadron under the command of Capitaine de Vaisseau Émile Guépratte. In the First World War, the ship was on the coasts of Montenegro and Tunisia , and in 1916, evacuating the Serbian army , and in December of the same year, in hostilities against the Greek royalists in Noemvriana . The 1918 ship was off Malta .

In 1923, the ship participated in the evacuation of Armenians fleeing the genocide and survivors of the Smyrna fire , transporting 75 people to Marseille on February 23. From 1929, the ship was a training ship in Toulon . On January 4, 1930, it ran aground on the coast of Algeria . The wreckage began to disintegrate four days later and was eventually completely destroyed, but the crew was completely rescued.

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