French ship César (1807)

César was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career
Ordered on 24 April 1804, César was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.

She was commissioned on 23 June 1807 under Captain Margollé, but remained inactive from October to April 1808.

In March 1809, ten deserters stole a launch and escaped the ship, only to be captured by the 4-gun Actif. In 1814, she took part in the defence of Antwerp, and was sailed to Brest after the Bourbon Restoration. She was put in ordinary there on 20 November 1814, and was struck before 1820.