The ''Impérial'' was a first-rate 118-gun

ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...

of the French Navy, of the ''Océan'' type, designed by

Jacques-Noël Sané Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740, Brest – 22 August 1831, Paris) was a French naval engineer. He was the conceptor of standardised designs for ships of the line and frigates fielded by the French Navy in the 1780s, which served during the ...

and built by François Poncet. She was begun at Toulon in 1810 and completed in 1812. She was the French flagship during the action of 5 November 1813. She was renamed ''Royal Louis'' in April 1814 following the downfall of the

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, but resumed the name ''Impérial'' in March 1815 when Napoléon returned to France. After the

Hundred Days The Hundred Days (french: les Cent-Jours ), also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration ...

and the restitution of Louis XVIII, she was again renamed ''Royal Louis'' in July 1815, being disarmed in June 1816. She was condemned in March 1825 and broken up later that year.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Imperial Ships of the line of the French Navy Océan-class ships of the line 1811 ships Ships built in France