''Minerve'' was a ''Téméraire''-class

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ship of the line, later

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d and commissioned as a frigate. Started during the Empire, she was launched during the Bourbon Restoration, rebuilt during the reign of

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, and served as a gunnery school through the

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and the

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, only to be broken up shortly after the advent of the

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Career

Ordered in 1807, the ship was initially to be named ''Couronne'', but was renamed ''Glorieux'' in 1812, and ''Duc de Berry'' in 1814 at the Bourbon Restoration. She was eventually launched in 1818. In 1830 after the

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she became ''Glorieux'' again. The next year, she was renamed ''Minerve'' and

d to a frigate. Launched for the second time in 1833, ''Minerve'' served a flagship of the naval station off Brazil. In 1841, she cruised off Madagascar before becoming the flagship of the Middle East naval station in 1844. On 10 October 1844, she ran aground off

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; she was refloated with the aid of the French Navy brig and six Ottoman Navy vessels. From 1848, ''Minerve'' was used as a gunnery training ship. She was hulked in 1853 and eventually broken up in 1874.

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