This morning I went with Mr. D. Mr. Artaud and several other gentlemen to see her
Majesty’s cabinet of paintings in the Palace. Mr. D and Mr. Artaud took a walk upon the
quay. Mr. Artaud dined at Mr. Rimbert’s. Cloudy weather.
“23d. Thursday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0006-0023. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 128.]