Which military school in Paris did Napoleon graduate from as an artillery officer?

Which military school in Paris did Napoleon graduate from as an artillery officer? École Militaire. Napoleon completed his formal military training there in Paris in 1785 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant of artillery.

The École Militaire was France’s royal military academy, founded in the 18th century to train officers. Napoleon entered after studying at the military school in Brienne, where he had focused on mathematics and military subjects. His preparation helped him complete the Paris course in roughly a year, an unusually rapid progression.

The school is sometimes confused with Saint-Cyr, another famous French military academy. Saint-Cyr was founded later, in 1802, so it was not Napoleon’s school. Napoleon’s artillery background became central to his career: he developed a reputation for concentrating guns effectively and using artillery to break enemy positions.