| Length | Land | ||||
| Aune | = 46·77 | inches. | Square Toise | = 4·54 sq. yards. | |
| Toise | = 76·73 | „ | Square Perche | = 2 sq. rods. | |
| Pied | = 12·789 | „ | Arpent (× 100) | = 1·26 acre. | |
| Perche | = 23·446 | feet. | |||
| Wine-measure | Corn-measure | Bushels | ||||||||
| Muid | = | 63·5 | galls. | Muid | = | 51·6 | ||||
| 4 Quartaut | = | 15·8 | „ | 12 Setier | = | 34·32 | gall. | = | 4·29 | |
| 9 Velte | = | 1·76 | „ | 12 Boisseau | = | 2·86 | „ | |||
| 8 Pinte | = | 1·76 | pint. | 16 Litron | = | 1·43 | pint. | |||
| 2 Chopine | = | 0·88 | „ | |||||||
| Weights | ||||
| Quintal | = | 107·7 | lb. | |
| 100 | Livre | = | 7554 | grains. |
| 16 | Once | = | 472·1 | „ |
| 24 | Deniers (dwt.) | = | 3 to a ‘gros.’ | |
| 24 | Grains. | |||
Remarks on the French Measures of Capacity
The fault of the Paris system was that there was little or no concordance between the different series.
In length, 6 aunes approximately coincided with 22 feet or 3-2/3 toises.
The measures of length had no concordance with those of capacity, and in the latter, wine-measure and corn-measure had lost their original concordance when they were brought from the south. They lost it by two faults:
1. By making the quartaut of 9 veltes instead of 8;
2. By dividing the setier into 12 boisseaux instead of 8.
Had this octonary division been substituted, it would have been quite satisfactory, and concordance with the linear standard would have been obtained.