 "Vérité" carried a main battery of four guns, like the "République", but mounted ten guns for her secondary armament in place of the guns of the earlier vessels.Like many late pre-dreadnought designs, "Vérité" was completed after the revolutionary British battleship had entered service and rendered her obsolescent.Even before being commissioned into service with the fleet, "Vérité" carried President Armand Fallières on a tour of the Baltic Sea in 1908.