In 1907, she was transferred to the Reserve Division of the Mediterranean Squadron, where she continued to take part in the peacetime training schedule.

She hosted President Armand Fallières and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia for a naval review during the latter's visit to France in 1909.

The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of triple-expansion steam engines driving two screw propellers.

[4][6][7] She completed her sea trials off Rochefort that year, reaching a maximum speed of 19.8 knots (36.7 km/h; 22.8 mph) in poor weather.

[9] On 20 September 1898, the ship took part in shooting practice with the battleships Jauréguiberry, Brennus, and Charles Martel, the ironclad Magenta, and the armored cruiser Chanzy; the ships used the old ironclad floating battery Arrogante as a target; they fired some 350 shells at Arrogante, which caught fire, rolled over, and sank.

On 6 March, Galilée joined several pre-dreadnought battleships and the protected cruisers Du Chayla, Lavoisier, and Cassard for maneuvers off Golfe-Juan on the Côte d'Azur, including night firing training.

The ship was present for the exercises, but instead of taking an active role, she escorted the battleship Bouvet, which hosted the admiral in charge of supervising the maneuvers.

[16] During the 1902 fleet maneuvers, which began on 7 July, the Northern Squadron attempted to force a passage through the Strait of Gibraltar.

The cruisers of the Mediterranean Squadron, including Galilée, conducted patrols from their base at Mers El Kébir to observe their entrance and signal the rest of the fleet.

[22] The ship took part in the fleet maneuvers that year, which began on 6 July with the concentration of the Northern and Mediterranean Squadrons in Algiers.

The maneuvers were conducted in the western Mediterranean, alternating between ports in French North Africa and Toulon and Marseilles, France, and concluding on 4 August.

On July 30, 1907, tribesmen of the Shawiya opposing the terms of the Treaty of Algeciras and the vacillations of the representative of the Makhzen, the Qaid Abu Bakr Ibn Abi Zaid as-Slawi, killed nine European employees of la Compagnie Marocaine operating a Decauville train from a quarry in Roches Noires to the Port of Casablanca.

The situation was stable until August 5, when Galilée put a landing party of 75 men ashore, into the city, causing an insurrection.

[31] In July 1909, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia visited France, and on the 27th, he boarded Galilée along with President Armand Fallières to observe a naval review in Cherbourg.