Melpomène was a schoolship frigate of the French Navy.

Melpomène was ordered in August 1883 as a replacement for Résolue, to serve as a gabier schoolship.

She departed for her first training cruise on 23 August 1890, sailing to Dakar and calling the Canary Islands and Tenerife on the way, before returning to Brest on 25 May 1891.

[1] In 1904, Melpomène was struck from the Navy lists.

[1] Melpomène was the subject of a post stamp in 1974.