École Navale
The French Naval Academy ( École Navale French ) is located in Lanvéoc in the Bay of Brest, south of Brest in Brittany. She is the school officer of the French Navy. Your students are colloquially named after a former school ship named Borda Bordaches.
During the First Empire, the Navy was formed in 1810 on two ships, the Tourville at Brest on the Atlantic and Duquesne in Toulon on the Mediterranean. Under Charles X. 1830, the Naval Academy was founded on the mainland.
The École Navale is a grande école, an elite military academy. As the civilian elite high schools it sets next to the Baccalauréat requires the two -year preparation by preparing classes. It follows the Concours Centrale - Supélec and an oral and a sporty entrance exam.
The school has about 300 students. Every year close about 74 cadets after three years out of school and get the engineering degree; it follows in the fourth year specialization for warships, submarines, special forces, as a naval aviator, for the mine warfare or nuclear energy; it will be completed in the merchant marine or in the defense industry companies such as Areva, Thales or total placements.
As in the German Naval Academy Mürwik is also formed on sail training ships; currently these are the Belle Poule and the Etoile, both savers from the year 1932. since 1993, is a German-French exchange program that allows the French ( under the title EFENA ) to complete their training in Germany and vice versa.
Former (alphabetically )
- Joseph René Bellot -, officer and Arctic explorer
- Jacques -Yves Cousteau, oceanographer and documentary filmmaker
- Jean Cras, Rear Admiral and composer
- François Darlan, admiral and politician
- Ernest Jean Philippe Fauque de Jonquières, officer and mathematician
- Pierre Loti, writer
- Henri Nomy, Admiral Chief of Staff
- Didier Ratsiraka, who later became president of Madagascar
- Albert Roussel, composer
- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer of Africa
- Michel Serres, philosopher
- Éric Tabarly, ship engineer
- Paul Teste, pioneer of French naval aviation
The later writer Alain- Fournier and later director Henri -Georges Clouzot broke her education at the school.