The Ville de Varsovie was a Bucentaure-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, designed by Chaumont from original plans by Sané.

In 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte established the Duchy of Warsaw and made a considerable effort to mobilize Polish national sentiment on France's behalf, and accordingly Tonnant was renamed Ville de Varsovie ("City of Warsaw") while still under construction.

In April 1809, Ville de Varsovie was part of the French Atlantic Fleet blockaded in Basque Roads at the mouth of the Charente on the Biscay coast of France by a Royal Navy squadron.

[4] Although the leader of the British attack, Lord Thomas Cochrane, disapproved of the decision, the commanding officer of the 74-gun third rate ship of the line HMS Valiant, Captain John Bligh, deemed Ville de Varsovie beyond repair and set her afire during the night of 12–13 April 1809.

The fire completed the destruction of Ville de Varsovie during the predawn hours of 13 April 1809.