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with the assumption that the (Vichy) French navy would not be allowed to retain submarines under any possible peace treaty with Axis (mirroring the Treaty of Versailles) what if they were put in service of KM?

(French submarines WWII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarines_of_World_War_II)

the KM had proposed acquiring Soviet submarines during period of collaboration but they ended up being judged unreliable and dangerous.

of course Germany built u-boats in numbers dwarfing any the French launched but the time frame of 1940 - early '41 when (putative) talks were ongoing, gaining the French fleet, including those already in Med so they would not have to hazard passing Gibraltar would be of outsized importance.
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