Presumably, in association with the completion of Joseph's studies, Georges and Anne travelled together from Guadeloupe and arrived in Bordeaux on L'Aimable Rose on 26 August 1755. Georges joined the ranks of the countless absentee planters living in France and, in 1757, purchased a title of nobility from the French crown. Anne, reunited with her son, Joseph, was in France to stay, and the purchased title meant that Joseph would become known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Georges settled with Anne and Joseph in a threestorey home at 49 rue Saint-André des Arts, on the left bank of the Seine River, in the Université section of Paris. As the district's name suggests, it was in the area of the Sorbonne, today called the Latin Quarter. In the mid-eighteenth century, this area of Paris was home to a diverse population of both temporary and permanent newcomers. It was home to the Collège des Lombards that was founded for students from the Italian peninsula in the fourteenth century, but when the Irish Catholic refugees migrated to France in the late-seventeenth century, it was acquired by Irish clerics and became the Collège des Irlandais. In the first emancipation era, the neighbourhood would also be home to the troubled Institution nationale des colonies, a school that specifically recruited students of colour. As residents of the Université neighbourhood in the late 1750s, Georges, Anne and Saint-Georges were surrounded by diversity in what was among the most cosmopolitan cities in early-modern Europe.  
Georges actively promoted the equality, social mobility and inclusion of his only son in high Parisian society, at a moment when economic dislocations,