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Paris, afternoon. Returned to Messrs: le Couteulx, for Mr. Gs1 business and finished it. Mr. Jefferson's. A man of universal learning and very pleasing manners. Memorandum: borrowed 2 vols. of the Tableau de Paris.2
Either Ferdinand or Georges Grand, Paris bankers.
[Louis Sebastien Mercier], Tableau de Paris. Nouvelle édition
corrigée & augmentée. Jefferson had only the first six of twelve volumes, which
were published in Amsterdam in 1782–1783 (E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 5 vols.,
Washington, 1952–1959, 4:122–123; entry for 11
March, below).