École navale
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École navale |
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| Lineup | 1827 |
| Country |
 France
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| Armed forces | French Navy |
| Location | Lanvéoc |
| motto | Parere Antequam Prodesse |
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| commander | Contre-Amiral Benoît Lugan |
The French naval school École navale is based in Lanvéoc in the Bay of Brest , south of Brest in Brittany . It is the officers' school of the French Navy . Your students are colloquially called Bordaches after an earlier school ship called Borda .
In the First Empire , the navy was trained on two ships from 1810, the Tourville in Brest on the Atlantic and the Duquesne in Toulon on the Mediterranean. Under Charles X , the naval school was founded on the mainland in 1830.
The École navale is a grande école , an elite military university. Like the civil elite universities, in addition to the Baccalauréat , it requires two years of preparation through the preparatory classes . This is followed by the Concours Centrale-Supélec as well as an oral and a sporting entrance examination.
The school has around 300 students. Every year about 74 officer candidates graduate from school after three years and receive the engineering diploma; This is followed in the fourth year by specializing in warships , submarines , special forces , as naval aviators , for mine warfare or for nuclear energy ; internships are completed at the merchant navy or at companies in the armaments industry such as Areva , Thales or Total .
As in the German naval school Mürwik , training takes place on sailing school ships ; currently these are the Belle Poule and the Étoile , both schooners from 1932. A Franco-German exchange program has existed since 1993, which enables French people (under the title EFENA ) to complete their training in Germany and vice versa.
Former (alphabetically)
- Joseph-René Bellot (1826–1853), officer and polar explorer
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), oceanographer and documentary filmmaker
- Jean Cras (1879–1932), rear admiral and composer
- François Darlan (1881–1942), admiral and politician
- Ernest Jean Philippe Fauque de Jonquières (1820–1901), officer and mathematician
- Pierre Loti (1850-1923), writer
- Henri Nomy (1899–1971), Admiral Chief of Staff
- Didier Ratsiraka (* 1936), later President of Madagascar
- Albert Roussel (1869–1937), composer
- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), Africa explorer
- Michel Serres (1930–2019), philosopher
- Éric Tabarly (1931–1998), ship designer
- Paul Teste (1892–1925), pioneer of French naval aviation
The later writer Alain-Fournier and the later director Henri-Georges Clouzot dropped out of their training at the school.
Web links
- Official website
- Video about the school (2 min, French)
- Fabian Baumert, view of the École Navale : online at defense.net (German)
Coordinates: 48 ° 16'45 " N , 4 ° 24'54" W.