No by France.
http://dossiersmarine.free.fr/index.html
1871 was when France stopped trying to have a meaningful navy and concentrated wholly on the army. Until then, the French Navy was often within shouting distance of the RN and it was possible (even if not likely most of the time) that the French Navy, with luck, could dominate the RN enough to allow an invasion of England. In particular, the 2nd Empire was one of the few times in history when the French Navy was arguably, for some little time windows (e.g. 1863), superior to the RN. After that, the MN was not even in the same league as the RN (discouting late 20th, early 21st century, of course).
While the French navy at the time may have been able to compete with the Brits, didn't Nappy 3 see them as an ally more than an enemy unlike the Germans decades later.