She was offered to the French Republic by a subscription of merchants from Paris on 27 May 1803 and started as Ville de Paris.

She was renamed Commerce de Paris on 21 November 1804.

[1] In 1808, she served as flagship of the Mediterranean squadron under Vice-Amiral Ganteaume[2] and Contre-Amiral Cosmao,[3] with Captain Violette as her flag officer.

[4] In June 1809, command of Commerce de Paris was transferred to Captain Brouard.

[5] On 29 August 1814, after the Hundred Days, she was transferred from Toulon to Brest, along with Austerlitz and Wagram, where she was decommissioned.