Bonhomme Richard

Bonhomme Richard or Bon Homme Richard, meaning good man Richard in French, may refer to:

  • USS Bonhomme Richard, several ships of the United States.
  • Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard, the French title of Poor Richard's Almanack, for which the ships were named.
  • A pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin

Famous quotes containing the word richard:

    “If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
    Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
    For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
    The sentence of thy early death contain.”
    —Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)