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This chapter deals with the circumstances of Adam Smith’s visit in (visit to or stay in) Toulouse. When he left Britain for his only voyage on the continent, Adam Smith was 42 years old. After his studies at the University of Glasgow, he had enrolled in the University of Oxford. His book the Theory of Moral Sentiments, whose first edition was published in 1759, had brought him some fame. The book had been quickly translated into French. It had drawn the attention of Charles Townshend, a British politician, later Chancellor of the Exchequer, who charged Smith to accompany his stepson with accompanying the future Duke of Buccleuch during this Grand Tour. The proposal was very attractive as it allowed Smith to meet the French Philosophers and obtain a comfortable retribution.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Smith’s correspondence is quoted from Smith (1977) as numbered by the editors, E. Campbell Mossner and Ian Simpson Ross. Generally the date is added when it is useful for the argument.

  2. 2.

    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1790/Obituary/Adam_Smith.

  3. 3.

    It’s Bacon, Boyle, Newton. But Smith also mentions the names of d’Alembert, Diderot, D’Aubenton, Rousseau, but also Maurepas, Buffon for his gigantic Natural History, Réaumur for his History of Insects.

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    http://dictionnaire-journalistes.gazettes18e.fr/journaliste/668-pierre-sylvain-regis.

  5. 5.

    National Archives of Scotland, GD 224/31/15, GD224/925, GD224/935/22.

  6. 6.

    NAS GD 224/31/15/3-8.

  7. 7.

    Currently held as MS 23 254 at the National Library of Scotland.

  8. 8.

    Currently held as MS 23 254 at the National Library of Scotland.

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Alcouffe, A., Massot-Bordenave, P. (2020). Two Scottish Visitors. In: Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46578-0_1

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