In addition to the Parisian salons of Madame du Deffand, the Duchesse d’Enville, and the Comtesse de Boufflers (see our previous posts in this series), the Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith also visited several other noteworthy places in the City of Light during his Paris sojourn in 1766:

• On 2 March, he attended a play at the Comédie-Italienne in the former Hôtel de Bourgogne on the rue Mauconseil (see Horace Walpole’s travel journal).
• On 15 March, he visited the Scots College in Paris (Collegium Scoticum or Collège des Écossais) on the rue du Cardinal-Lemoine (ibid.).
• On 7 April, he dined at the townhouse of Lady Mary Chabot (ibid.). (Nota bene: Although we are not 100% certain, Alain and I believe Lady Mary Chabot might refer to Lady Mary Apollonia Scholastica Stafford-Howard (1721–1769), the daughter of William Stafford-Howard, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and the second wife and widow of Guy Augustus de Chabot-Rohan (1683-1760), who was also known as the comte de Chabot; in the meantime, we are still researching the precise location of the Chabot townhouse.)
• On 4 June, he most likely celebrated the birthday of King George III at the British Embassy in Paris, which was located in the Hôtel de Brancas, also known as the Hôtel de Lassay (a close-up of which is pictured below) on rue de l’Université. (Today, the Hôtel de Lassay is used as the official residence of the President of the French National Assembly and is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.)
• In addition to the above places, at some point in time during his Paris sojourn Smith also most likely attended the salon of the Baron d’Holbach on the rue Royale-Saint-Roch, and he may have also paid Madame Riccoboni a visit at her apartment on the rue Poissonnière.