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USS Bonhomme Richard (1765)
''Bonhomme Richard'', formerly ''Duc de Duras'', was a warship in the Continental Navy. She was originally an East Indiaman, a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, for service between France and the Orient. She was placed at the disposal of John Paul Jones on 4 February 1779, by King Louis XVI of France as a result of a loan to the United States by French shipping magnate, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray.
==Origin==
Little is known about the early career of ''Bonhomme Richard'' other than she was originally an East Indiaman named ''Duc de Duras'', a merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765. She sailed in that service between France and eastern Asia until she was purchased by King Louis XVI of France in early 1779 and placed under the command of John Paul Jones on 4 February.〔Hill (1905), pp. 23–24.〕 The size and armament of ''Duc de Duras'' made her roughly equivalent to half of a 64-gun ship of the line〔(LE BONHOMME-RICHARD, Échelle 1/48 par Pierre et Jacques Maillière, Commentaires G.D. )〕
Jones renamed her ''Bon Homme Richard'' (usually rendered in more correct French as ''Bonhomme Richard'') in honor of Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris whose ''Poor Richard's Almanac'' was published in France under the title ''Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard''.〔
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