High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Condorcet was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy; the nature of her armament, which included an intermediate calibre between the main and anti-torpedo armament, has usually meant that, in common with HMS Agamemnon, HMS Lord Nelson and the Japanese ships of the Aki class, she is regarded as a semi-dreadnought. She was a member of the Danton class of ships, which formed the backbone of the French Fleet until the first French dreadnoughts became operational in the early years of World War I.