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| Formation | 1752 |
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| Headquarters | Paris,France |
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Official language | French |
President | Professor Jean-Pierre Quéneudec |
Key people | Antoine Louis Rouillé (Founder) |
| Website | http://www.academiedemarine.com |
TheRoyal Naval Academy of France (French:Académie royale de marine,pronounced[akademiʁwajaldəmaʁin]) was founded atBrest by a ruling of 31 July 1752 byAntoine Louis de Rouillé, comte de Jouy,Secretary of State for the Navy. This institutionalised an earlier initiative by a group of officers from the Brest fleet headed by the artillery captainSébastien Bigot de Morogues who all wanted to contribute to the modernisation of theFrench Navy, a group which had very quickly received the approbation ofLouis XV.
de Morogues was named the Academy's first president and the institution gathered in astronomers, hydrographers, mathematicians and so on, including such names asDumaitz de Goimpy,Borda,Thévenard,Marguerie, andClaret de Fleurieu, and three of its members (Claret de Fleurieu,Fleuriot de Langle,d'Escures) were to be found amongstLa Pérouse's expedition to theSolomon Islands which later disappeared. The Academy contributed greatly to the improvement of navigational instruments, and its graduates includedÉtienne Eustache Bruix.
The institution disappeared temporarily from 1764 to 1769, at the end of theSeven Years' War. In 1769,Aymar Joseph de Roquefeuil, commandant of the Brest fleet, obtained permission for its re-establishment fromLouis XV and fromChoiseul-Praslin, Secretary of State for the Navy. The Academy was linked to theAcadémie des sciences by an edict of 1771, but was finally suppressed by theNational Convention on 8 August 1793 at the same time as all the other academies. It was restored again under theEmpire as the "Académie de marine" and continues its work today.
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