Georges Leygues, Montcalm and La Gloire joined the Allied forces after the successful Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942. Georges Leygues and Montcalm were refitted in Philadelphia and La Gloire in Brooklyn and accordingly the latter differed from the other two. After refitting, they took part in various Allied operations, including the Normandy landings in 1944. Postwar, several of the class acted as the flagship of the French Mediterranean Squadron and carried out operations off Indochina until 1954, and afterwards were deployed during the Suez Crisis and operations off Algeria. They were scrapped between 1958 and 1970.

Above history as well as specifications and reference information, courtesy of:
Ref A. Moulin, Jean (1995). Les croiseurs de 7600 tonnes (in French). Rennes: Marines Editions ISBN 2 909 675 05X
Ref B. Moulin, Jean & Jordan, John (2012) French Cruisers 1922-1956. Naval Institute Press ISBN 978-1-59114-296-6

For more superficial information check out the Wikipedia page.

Marseillaise is packaged in a typical Trumpeter sturdy box, with a painting of the subject on the lid of that looks like a photo of the real vessel on page 34 of reference A. Inside the box is the full hull in a segregated portion of the box together with the two piece deck, a bag with two PE sheets, a bag of decals and a bag of chain. 

The second section of the box has seven bags of sprues, containing ten plastic sprues and one clear sprue of the Loire 130M. The plastic is what we have some to expect of Trumpeter, light grey, sharply moulded, recessed scuttles with the attachment points mostly in convenient places. There is a filler piece of cardboard to take up unused space in the box, the length of which is defined by the hull.

From comparison to the references, the kit depicts the subject as completed in 1937, as evidenced by the funnels caps that were changed in 1939.

The only other kit in this scale of this subject is the Combrig Montcalm which I have in my collection, and I will compare the two where appropriate.

Combrig includes them but compared to the pictures they are too proud in that kit. The scuttles seem pretty close to pictures, with the uneven spacing well represented. The holes for the Prop Guards look a little high compared to the waterline but I cannot measure it so I will give Trumpeter a break on that. The break from the foredeck to the aft is depicted as angled on the Trumpeter kit. This is correct for the original configuration of La Galissonniere, La Marseillaise, Montclam and Georges Leygues, but this was a vertical break with a round fillet at the bottom for Gloire and Jean de Vienne. Post update for all three ships it is just a vertical line. The lower hull shape is quite off, it seems to have been eating a little too much as it is quite bulbous and not at all like the plans that I have or the Combrig kit. There is additionally, a very strange set of indentation on the fillet at the stem.

This is the aft deck with the portion from the hangar giving a representation of planking. There are raised location parts for two deckhouse areas that are the correct size and shape as per Ref A. There is a locating place for the catapult and crane as well as the aft barbette. All in their correct locations. The vents and fittings are undersized, but the biggest miss is that the aircraft handling trolley tracks are completely absent. These are very prominent and a big miss. Also, Trumpeter appears to have repeated the error from the Belfast in that the representation of the planking extends too far forward, rather than stopping at the hangar.

Next up is part M2.

This is the forward deck as far aft as the front of the hangar. This includes all the usual deckhouses, recesses for forward superstructure, funnels, barbette and holes for anchor chain. Also represented are cradles for the ships boats and the layout does not match any of the vessels in Ref A for any of the time period for the life of these ships. This is not a big deal to change them, except that the number and size of the boats for the time period depicted are different. Trumpeter provide three 10m motorboats and two 10m dinghies. Ref A shows as built there should be two 9m motorboats, one 10m dinghy, one 9m dinghy and three 7m motorboats. I will let the builder decide whether to correct this. The forecastle area is a little plain, with no representation of the deck plating which is quite noticeable in photographs.

One part is the superstructure level with number 2 turret, and the next two levels of the bridge superstructure. Each of the parts are the correct shape but like most of the kit, the details if pretty spartan, with fairly featureless doors. The last part is the hangar, and this has problems. In addition to being a repeat of soft details, the deck house forward of the hangar is wrong for La Marseillaise. This shape depicted is right only for La Galissonniere and Jean de Vienne. The other four vessels had a deckhouse that was the full width of the hangar. 

G1 is one of the forward superstructure level house.
G2 is the second part of the forward superstructure level house
G3 is the number 2 turret.
G4 is the number 3 turret.
G5 is the 152mm DCT. 

I will address just the turrets in the G bag as well as the turret on Sprue A. Frankly these are pretty disappointing. Trumpeter have captured the fact that each turret is different especially turret 1 (Sprue A) having a different roof shape. But that is the only good. The detail is very soft, and the sharp edges are pretty rounded. Also, the turrets are too tall. At the front they are about 1.75mm too tall, but at the back they are about .02mm off, which naturally leads to the slope angle being wrong. Sigh. To add insult to injury, the length is about a 1mm too long. None of these dimensions are large, but it makes the shape look off and as there are so distinctively shaped turrets, it matters.

PE B
This is a simple PE set with 5 sets of 3-bar railings, 200mm long.

This is Trumpeter's kit number 05374, the 1/350 French Cruiser Marseillaise.  The model retails for $119.99, and is available from Squadron Models - who provided Modelwarships with a review sample - for $89.99.