# Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes Date: 1766 ## The fact 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](/people/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. Do not twin this with the 1764 tour start. 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. Conversation is shared; he did not join a formal sect as unique member-secretary. ## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. ## Evidence and sources Britannica and SEP independently date the 1766 Paris physiocratic meetings. Official: Britannica — Adam Smith in Paris, Quesnay (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Smith and the physiocrats (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/; 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; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Smith and the physiocrats (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official or archival record: Britannica — Adam Smith in Paris, Quesnay (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Improving education-access path: direct conversation with a public school of political economy. 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. ## What is established and what is not 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. 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. Do not twin this with the 1764 tour start. Paris 1766 is the French-economist residence. Mixed effects of Smith resides in Paris and meets Quesnay and other économistes are separate paths. ## People - Adam Smith: https://factrail.ai/people/adam-smith ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/smith-moral-political/ - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/asm-paris-physiocrats-1766