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Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes

In 1766 Smith resided in Paris during the Buccleuch tour and met François Quesnay and other économistes. The dated Paris conversation is not the 1764 departure from Glasgow and not a unique co-authorship of the Tableau économique. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1766 Smith resided in Paris during the Buccleuch tour and met François Quesnay and other économistes. The dated Paris conversation is not the 1764 departure from Glasgow and not a unique co-authorship of the Tableau économique. Adam Smith’s documented role is: He spent 1766 in Paris with Buccleuch and met Quesnay, Mirabeau, and Turgot. Conversation is shared; he did not join a formal sect as unique member-secretary. Paris 1766 is the French-economist residence. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Adam Smith's documented role is: He spent 1766 in Paris with Buccleuch and met Quesnay, Mirabeau, and Turgot.

Context

The duke’s household, Helvétius’s circle, and Turgot as a neighbouring administrator share the months. Influence with lag on WN is a reading, not a reason to split WN into more March days. Hume had already been in Paris; that is a neighbouring friendship. Named others on the file: François Quesnay, A. R. J. Turgot, the Duke of Buccleuch, and Paris salon hosts share the residence. The public setting is the file around 1766-01-01. The instrument stays Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes. The setting of Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes is the public file around 1766-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

Complex shared salon. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated Paris residence put him in direct conversation with physiocratic political economy. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes. Naming Adam Smith does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1766-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Adam Smith

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He spent 1766 in Paris with Buccleuch and met Quesnay, Mirabeau, and Turgot. Conversation is shared; he did not join a formal sect as unique member-secretary.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Adam Smith’s Moral and Political PhilosophyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Adam SmithEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and SEP independently date the 1766 Paris physiocratic meetings. Official: Britannica — Adam Smith in Paris, Quesnay (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Smith and the physiocrats (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Adam Smith in Paris, Quesnay (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Smith and the physiocrats (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: 1766 Paris residence and meetings with Quesnay’s circle. Not established: that WN is a unique copy of the Tableau, or extra WN day-splits. Established: a sourced public record of Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes under 1766-01-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAdam Smith
  2. contributed toFactSmith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-paris-physiocrats-1766

https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-paris-physiocrats-1766

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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