The Lycée naval or Collège

College

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 naval (KN) is one of France's six military lycées. It is part of the Brest Naval Training Centre

Brest Naval Training Centre

The Brest Naval Training Centre is one of the main training centres for the French Navy...

 (the Centre d'instruction naval de Brest, or CIN). Housed in the Brest

Brest, France

Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...

 naval base, the CIN also includes the École de maistrance

École de maistrance

The École de maistrance is the training school for future non-commissioned officers in the French Navy. It was set up in 1988, it is now part of the Brest Naval Training Centre and within the remit of the Direction du personnel militaire de la marine...

 (training future naval non-commissioned officer

Non-commissioned officer

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s) and the seamen's training school.

The school has two aims - to help naval families, and to help recruitment to 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...

. Its teaching is divided into two distinct parts:

• classes as taught in any lycée - grouped in seconde, première and terminale - in the sciences, economics and literature (though the literature section is closed for efficiency)
• "classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles" (CPGE
  Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
  The classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles , commonly called classes prépas or prépas, are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist in two very selective years , acting as a prep course with the main goal of training undergraduate students for enrolment in one of the...
  
  ), with the main aim of preparing students to enter the officer training schools of the Navy, Army, Air Force and military engineers
  École nationale supérieure des ingénieurs des études et techniques d'armement
  The Superior National School of Advanced Techniques of Brittany often referred as ENSTA Bretagne formerly ENSIETA is a French grande école of engineering. The ENSTA Bretagne is a higher education establishment run under the supervision of the French ministry of defence...