The Royal Naval Academy of France (French: Académie royale de marine, pronounced [akademi ʁwajal də maʁin]) was founded at Brest by a ruling of 31 July 1752 by Antoine Louis de Rouillé, comte de Jouy, Secretary of State for the Navy.

This institutionalised an earlier initiative by a group of officers from the Brest fleet headed by the artillery captain Sébastien Bigot de Morogues who all wanted to contribute to the modernisation of the French Navy, a group which had very quickly received the approbation of Louis XV.

The Academy contributed greatly to the improvement of navigational instruments, and its graduates included Étienne Eustache Bruix.

In 1769, Aymar Joseph de Roquefeuil, commandant of the Brest fleet, obtained permission for its re-establishment from Louis XV and from Choiseul-Praslin, Secretary of State for the Navy.

It was restored again under the Empire as the "Académie de marine" and continues its work today.