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From 1763 to 1765, Hume was Secretary to Lord Hertford in Paris.

He met and later fell out with Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

He wrote of his Paris life, " I really wish often for the plain roughness of The Poker Club of Edinburgh ... to correct and qualify so much lusciousness ".

For a year from 1767, Hume held the appointment of Under Secretary of State for the Northern Department.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

( A popular story, consistent with some historical evidence, suggests the street was named after Hume.