title: French ship Alexandre
text: # French ship Alexandre
  
  A number of French ships of the French Navy have borne the name Alexandre in honour of Alexander the Great:
  
  ## Ships named Alexandre
  
  * Alexandre (1771), an Artésien-class 64-gun ship of the line
  * Alexandre (1782), a brig, formerly the British privateer Alexander
  * Jemmapes (1794), a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, was laid down as Alexandre before being renamed.
  * Alexandre (1794), formerly HMS Alexander, built in 1778 and captured in the action of 6 November 1794
  * Indivisible (1799), a Tonnant-class 80-gun ship of the line, was renamed Alexandre on 5 February 1803.
  * Donawerth (1854), a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line, was started as Alexandre in 1827
  * Alexandre (1846), a Nil-class packet steamer
  * Alexandre (1857), a 90-gun Suffren-class ship of the line
  * Portrait of Alexandre (1857) as a gunnery school ship, her engine removed after 1873. by François Roux.
  