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frenchhistory: Usage des nouvelles mesures, 1800, gravure, BNF, photo 12 /ARJ @credits The metric system was conceived by a group of scientists (among them, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who is known as the “father of modern chemistry”) who had been commissioned by the Assemblée nationale and Louis XVI of France to create a unified and rational system of measures. On 1 August 1793, the National Convention adopted the new decimal metre with a provisional length as well as the other decimal units with preliminary definitions and terms. On 7 April 1795 (Loi du 18 germinal, an III) the terms gramme and kilogramme replaced the former terms gravet (correctly milligrave) and grave and on 22 June 1799, after Pierre Méchain and Jean-Baptiste Delambre completed their survey, the definitive standard metre was deposited in the French National Archives. On 10 December 1799 (a month after Napoleon’s coup d’état), the metric system was definitively adopted in France.

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Usage des nouvelles mesures, 1800, gravure, BNF, photo 12 /ARJ

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The metric system was conceived by a group of scientists (among them, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who is known as the “father of modern chemistry”) who had been commissioned by the Assemblée nationale and Louis XVI of France to create a unified and rational system of measures. On 1 August 1793, the National Convention adopted the new decimal metre with a provisional length as well as the other decimal units with preliminary definitions and terms. On 7 April 1795 (Loi du 18 germinal, an III) the terms gramme and kilogramme replaced the former terms gravet (correctly milligrave) and grave and on 22 June 1799, after Pierre Méchain and Jean-Baptiste Delambre completed their survey, the definitive standard metre was deposited in the French National Archives. On 10 December 1799 (a month after Napoleon’s coup d’état), the metric system was definitively adopted in France.

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vintageanchor: “Darling, I don’t want you; I’ve got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don’t want the whole of anyone…. What you want is the whole of me-isn’t it, isn’t it?-and the whole of me isn’t there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don’t exist.” ― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

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“Darling, I don’t want you; I’ve got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don’t want the whole of anyone…. What you want is the whole of me-isn’t it, isn’t it?-and the whole of me isn’t there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don’t exist.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

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