What if the Washington Naval Treaty was never enacted?

re: French Aircraft Carrier.
The Bearn was experimental wasn’t it; not intended for operational use?

Experimental in the sense it was the first carrier (well, if you except the Bapaume and Orage training cruisers-turned-very light carriers), but it could have played an operational use. The wing complement (Dewoitine D 373 fighters and Gourdou-Lesseure torpedo bomber) was obsolete, but there were plans to base Loire-Nieuport LN 410 dive bombers.

Had WW2 waited till full Allied rearmament, the Painlevé would have been operational as well, with basically the capacity of the early Ark Royal.
 
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