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    Foot (unit) (redirect from Pied (unit))
    pied (French) and voet (Dutch) would have been used interchangeably.[citation needed] The source document used pre-metric French units (pied, pouce and...
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    which was given to l'Académie des Sciences au Louvre. Although the pouce (inch), pied (foot) and toise (fathom) were fairly consistent throughout most of...
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  • 1/144 pied 1 linie = 1/144 pied 1 pouce = 1/12 pied 1 zoll = 1/12 pied 1 aune = 2 pied (or 4 pied) 1 elle = 2 pied 1 brache = 2 pied 1 toise = 6 pied 1 ruthe...
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    Length was measured in toises, pieds, pouces and lignes with 6 pieds to a toise, 12 pouces to a pied and 12 lignes to a pouce. Therefore, the pascaline needed...
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    singulier … j'en avois rempli une fiole cylindrique, longue de cinq pouces, & d'un pouce de diamètre ou environ; & l'ayant couverte d'un morceau de vessie...
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    in traditional units as 3 pieds, 11.44 lignes (a ligne being the 12th part of a pouce (inch), or the 144th part of a pied. Peltier, Jean-Gabriel (1795)...
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  • yd 5.0292 m yard yard or verge 9,144⁄10,000 m 914.4 mm foot pied 1⁄3 yd 304.8 mm inch pouce 1⁄36 yd 25.4 mm chain chaîne 22 yd 20.1168 m link chaînon 1⁄100...
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    in traditional units as 3 pieds, 11.44 lignes (a ligne being the 12th part of an pouce (inch), or the 144th part of a pied. Charlton T. Lewis, Charles...
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  • before divided into 6 pieds (or "feet") or 72 pouces (inches). The pouce was divided into 12 lignes (or "lines"). The pied and pouce, at precisely 333.3 mm...
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    Guy Bedos (category Pieds-noirs)
    French man born in Algeria, a former French department. He is identified as a Pied-Noir, name given to the French people by the Algerians in assimilation with...
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  • Paris). Note the dimensions provided are in French feet and inches (pieds et pouces) which are 6.575% longer than British measurements, so they are here...
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    manière qu'il puissent servir de guides dans l'imprimerie, comme le pied de roi, les pouces et les lignes en servent dans la géométrie. In order to combine...
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  • 1960s: "Comme un papillon" 1960s: "On n'a pas les pieds sur terre" 1980s: "Qu'est-ce que c'est" 1971: "Pouce" 1972: "Le Monde à l'envers" 1974: "Adieu Nina"...
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  • definitions. ligne – 1⁄12 pouce 2.2558 mm pouce – Inch, 1⁄12 pied 27.070 mm pied – Foot, varied through times, the Paris pied de roi is 324.84 mm. Used...
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    with as before six pied (feet) making up one toise, twelve pouce (inches) making up one pied and twelve lignes making up one pouce. Likewise, for mass...
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    (169 pied) gundeck 53.97 metres (177.1 ft) (166 pied 2 pouces) keel Beam 14.29 metres (46 ft 11 in) (44 pied) Draught 6.72 metres (22.0 ft) (20 pied 8 pouces)...
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    of length (pieds and pouces) were 6.575% longer than equivalent UK/US units of measurement (feet and inches); the pre-metric French pied ("foot") was...
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    "outstretched arms". 1 toise was divided in 6 feet (French: pieds) or 72 inches (pouces) or 864 lines (lignes) in France until 1812. In 1799 the metre...
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    not to the later value in mesures usuelles. 1 toise = 6 pieds; 1 pied = 12 pouces; 1 pouce = 12 lignes; so 1 toise = 864 lignes. The modern value, for...
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    longueur [environ 6 pouces]. "Les feuilles extérieures de l'involucre sont longues d'environ 3 à 6 décimètres [un ou deux pieds], et sont rudes et finement...
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    Chaud, 2010 (Amiens, France) L’ennemi, MicMac Théâtre, 2010 (Belgique) Pouce! (from L'Ennemi), Compagnie Marche ou rêve, 2010 (Toulouse, France) Mon...
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    height as "Ayant la taille de cinq pieds et neuf pouces" ("Having the height of five feet nine inches"). By pieds, Casanova refers to the French king's...
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    quoting French sources states her length at 147 pieds du roi and 1 pouce, and her beam at 35 pieds 8 pouces, corresponding to 47.78 m × 11.57 m or 156 ft...
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    87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied) Beam 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in) (45 pied 10 pouces) Draught 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) Propulsion Up to 2,485 m2...
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    every other nation. Similarly, French pre-metric units of length (pieds and pouces) were 6.575% longer than equivalent UK/US units of measurement; the...
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    Toise of Châtelet (a toise [English: fathom] is defined as 6 pieds [foot] or 72 pouces [inches] or 864 lignes [lines]), which had been recently renewed...
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  • the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798 The units of measurement pieds (feet) and pouces (inches) were Units of measurement in France before the French...
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    Navy as the Leda class) and had design dimensions of 144 pieds 6 pouces by 36 pieds 8 pouces (corresponding to 154 feet (47 m) by 39 feet 1 inch (11.91 m))...
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  • value Length Weight French English English (Troy) Roman 120 pied foot pound libra 12−1 pouce inch ounce uncia 12−2 ligne line 2 scruples 2 scrupula 12−3...
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    pre-revolutionary France and had been in use since Charlemagne, using pouce (inch), pied (foot). Cody 2001. Gelbart 1998, pp. 61–62, 271. Stanley 1995. Commire...
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