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Mapping the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris
In our previous post, Alain Alcouffe and I mentioned that we would be using an 18th-century map of Paris, the Plan de Turgot (a reproduction of which is pictured below in its final assembled form), to map Adam Smith’s proximity … Continue reading
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Adam Smith and the Countess of Boufflers
(Author’s note: below is Part 3 of my series of blog posts on Adam Smith’s second visit to Paris.) I never saw so much wit, grace, and beauty united in one person. Mme de Boufflers, at the age of thirty, … Continue reading
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