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Soleil Royal (Royal Sun) was a 104-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the flagship of Admiral Anne Hilarion de Tourville.

She was built in Brest, France between 1668 and 1670 by shipwright Laurent Hubac, was launched in 1669, and remained unused in the Brest harbor for years. She was recommissioned with 112 guns and 1200 men when the Nine Years' War broke out in 1688 as the flagship of the Ponant Fleet.

She was said to be a good sailing ship and her decorations were among the most beautiful and elaborate of all baroque flagships. The emblem of the "sun" had been chosen by Louis XIV as his personal symbol.