French ship Louis Quinze
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The Louis Quinze is a ship of the line
of the French Navy
, built as a 1/36th scale model
which is currently on display at the Musée national de la Marine
. No actual ship of the French Navy bore the name.
The Louis Quinze is a 110-gun ship of the line, the strongest type built in France by that time; the only ship built to the specifications was the Royal Louis
. The model is lavishly decorated, a feature characteristic of prestige warships of the Louis XIV
era. It is believed that the model was built as an educational model for royal princes.
Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
of the French Navy
French Navy
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
, built as a 1/36th scale model
Scale model
A scale model is a physical model, a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object, which seeks to maintain the relative proportions of the physical size of the original object. Very often the scale model is used as a guide to making the object in...
which is currently on display at the Musée national de la Marine
Musée national de la Marine
The Musée national de la Marine is a maritime museum located in the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort , Toulon and Saint-Tropez...
. No actual ship of the French Navy bore the name.
The Louis Quinze is a 110-gun ship of the line, the strongest type built in France by that time; the only ship built to the specifications was the Royal Louis
French ship Royal Louis (1692)
The Royal Louis was a first-rate ship of the line of the French Royal Navy....
. The model is lavishly decorated, a feature characteristic of prestige warships of the Louis XIV
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
era. It is believed that the model was built as an educational model for royal princes.