Patrie was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the early 1900s. She had one sister ship, République. Patrie was laid down at the La Seyne shipyard in April 1902, launched in December 1903, and completed three years later in December 1906, the same time as the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought. Armed with a main battery of four guns, she was outclassed by Dreadnought, which mounted ten guns of the same caliber, by the time she entered service.