From him being that author of Poor Richard’s Almanac?
Yes but not just Poor Richard’s. Ben Franklin spent a lot of years in France, was well known and quite popular there and had his own French version of the Almanac, When the US Navy went to name a ship after him they used the French nickname. Then in the early 60’s, while the carrier was still in service, they named a class of missile subs after him. The class boat SSBN 640 was named the Ben Franklin but was called BonHomme Richard by its crew. That part is slightly confusing but I actually worked on the boat a couple time while it was stationed at Pearl and knew some of the crewmen and they all called it the Bon Homme-— even tho the carrier was still in service.