 The wreck remained in Toulon until 1925, when her destroyed hull was refloated, towed into a drydock, and broken up.The "Liberté"-class battleships were originally intended to be part of the , but the construction of the British s, with their heavy secondary battery of guns, prompted the French Naval General Staff to request that the last four "République"s be redesigned to include a heavier secondary battery in response.Ironically, the designer, Louis-Émile Bertin, had proposed such an armament for the "République" class, but the General Staff had rejected it since the larger guns had a lower rate of fire than the smaller guns that had been selected for the "République" design.