French units of measurement
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title:
French units of measurement
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France has a unique history of units of measurement due to its radical decision to invent and adopt the metric system after the French Revolution. In the Ancien régime and until 1795, France used a system of measures that had many of the characteristics of the modern Imperial System of units but with no unified system. There was widespread abuse of the king's standards, to the extent that the lieue could vary from 3.268 km in Beauce to 5.849 km in Provence. During the revolutionary era and motiv
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Units of measurement used in France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_units_of_measurement
date created:
2005-09-05T17:15:02Z
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2024-09-04T17:45:56Z
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