The Séduisant class was a sub-class of 74-gun ships of the line of the French Navy, comprising two ships built at Toulon Dockyard to a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb in the year immediately following the close of the American Revolutionary War. In reality these two ships followed his design for the , but were completed with a length greater by 5¼ feet, and had also slightly less breadth and depth in hold.
Séduisant Builder: Toulon Ordered: 1 June 1782 Begun: August 1782 Launched: 5 July 1783 Completed: 1783 Fate: Wrecked, 16 December 1796
Mercure Builder: Toulon Ordered: 1 June 1782 Begun: August 1782 Launched: 4 August 1783 Completed: 1783 Fate: Burnt by the British after the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798
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