Minerve Explained

Minerve is the French spelling of Minerva, an ancient Roman goddess.

Minerve or La Minerve may refer to:

Places

• La Minerve, Quebec, Canada, a village and municipality
• Minerve, Hérault, France, a commune

Ships

• French ship Minerve, numerous French Navy ships
• Minerve-class submarine, a pre-World War II French Navy class
• Minerve-class frigate, a class of six French Navy frigates completed in the 1780s and 1790s
• , three Royal Navy ships
• Neapolitan ship Minerve (1791), a frigate surrendered to France in 1801 and renamed Sibylle

Newspapers

• La Minerve, a Quebec newspaper from 1826 to 1899
• La Minerve (French newspaper), first published in 1818

Other uses

• Minerve (airline), a former French airline
• La Minerve, a giant ascension balloon envisioned by Étienne-Gaspard Robert in 1820

See also

• Minerva (disambiguation)