page_title: Military academy
section_title: Officer academies
hierarchical_section_title: Military academy / List of military academies by countries / France / Officer academies
caption_attribution_description: English: Lieutenants of the First Battalion, Bastille Day 2008 military parade on the Champs-Élysées, Paris. Français&#160;: Sous-lieutenants de la promotion «&#160;Capitaine Beaumont&#160;» de Saint-Cyr, défilé du 14 juillet 2008 sur les Champs-Élysées, Paris.
context_page_description: A military academy or service academy is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps. It normally provides education in a military environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.
  Three types of academy exist: pre-collegiate-level institutions awarding academic qualifications, university-level institutions awarding bachelor's-degree-level qualifications, and those preparing Officer Cadets for commissioning into the armed services of the state.
  A naval academy is either a type of military academy or is distinguished from one. In U.S. usage, the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy are both service academies.
context_section_description: École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of St Cyr") is the French Military Academy. It is often referred to as "Saint-Cyr". Founded by Napoleon in 1802, and initially in Fontainebleau, it was moved first to Saint-Cyr-l'École in 1808, and then to Coëtquidan (Brittany) in 1945.
  École militaire interarmes (EMIA)
  École des commissaires des armées (ECA), founded in 2013
  École de l'air: the French Air Force Academy
  École Navale: the French Naval Academy
  École des officiers de la gendarmerie nationale (EOGN): gendarmerie commissioned officers academy
  École Polytechnique (X): a French engineering grande école of military status. Though all of its French engineering students are enlisted and trained as officers, 5% of its graduates remain in the military after graduation.
  ENSTA Bretagne: a French engineering grande école of military status. Only 1/4 of its students are actual officers-in-training.
  École de Santé des Armées: medical school of French army
  National Military Infrastructure Engineers Academy: trains military engineers of the Armed Forces, opened 2013 (also one of the newest)
caption: Cadets of École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr during the 2008 Bastille Day military parade. The military college was established in 1802 by Napoleon.
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