Louis XIV was an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

On 28 January 1855, she departed Toulon to take part in the Siege of Sevastopol as a transport ship.

From September 1856 to 1857, she was converted to combined sail/steam propulsion in Brest harbour, using machinery supplied by Robert Napier of Glasgow, to reenter service on 25 October 1857.

Louis XIV was decommissioned between 1858 and 1861, and was affected to the École Navale as a gunnery training ship from 1861 to 1865.

In 1870, her crew was sent to Paris to defend the city against the advancing Prussian armies.