High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pallas class constituted the standard design of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period. They were designed by Jacques-Noel Sane in 1805, as a development of his seven-ship Hortense class of 1802, and at least fifty-nine frigates were ordered to this new design. Of these some fifty-four were completed, although ten of these which were begun for the French Navy in shipyards within the Netherlands or Italy (which were then under French occupation) were completed for the Netherlands or Austrian Navies after 1813.

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