25 January 1929 being assigned to the First Light Division at Toulon. Her first flag showing cruise was around Africa returning in October 1929. November 1929 she was assigned as Flagship to the 1st Light Division of the 1st Squadron at Toulon. On 10 May 1930 she partook in a Naval Review celebrating 100 years since the arrival of the French in Algeria at Algiers. On 31 October 1931 she visited the US to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown. In October 1934 she was assigned to the 3rd Light Division. After 1938 she was assigned to the Gunnery School until the outbreak of war in September 1939. Wartime service On 25 January 1940 she sailed to Dakar as part of Force Y for employment on sweeps of the Atlantic searching for enemy merchantmen and merchant raiders. On 11 April Force Y departed Dakar. On 4 May 1940 as the Flagship of Vice Admiral Godfroy she arrived at Alexandria and took command of Force X. On 22 June she was preparing to sail with the cruisers Duguay-Trouin and Suffern for a bombardment mission on Augustus, Sicily and a raid off the Straits of Messina when official notification of the French Armistice with Germany was delivered. Their departure was cancelled and the French ships were barred from departing the harbour after 23 June. On 3 July Vice-Admiral Cunningham presented Admiral Godfrey the ultimatum - surrender the ships to British control, demilitarize the ships at their moorings or scuttle. The Admirals signed an agreement on 7 July to demilitarize the vessels. On 17 May 1943 the ships of Force X rejoined the Allied cause as part of the Free French Forces. In July 1943 she sailed via the Suez Canal around the Cape of Good Hope to Dakar. In December 1943 she was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Division of the Free French Fleet. She would be employed in anti-blockade duties searching for blockade runners conducting nine patrols between late September and late February. She then underwent a refit at Dakar to modernize her antiair armament. On 1 May 1944 she arrived at Greenock on the River Clyde bringing ammunition for the French Second Class cruisers. Her AA armament was considered too weak to participate in the landing operation. On 25 August she sailed for Casablanca with a reduced crew to be used as a transport. By 14 December