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  2. French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Article 5 of the law of 18 Germinal, Year III (7 April 1795) defined five units of measure. The units and their preliminary values were: [7] The metre, for length – defined as being one ten millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris; The are (100 m 2) for area [of land] The stère (1 m 3) for volume of firewood

  3. Paris inch - Wikipedia

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    The term for telescopes persisted even in the 20th century, with a telescope listed in the 1909 Sears Roebuck catalog of having 25 lignes diameter aperture, or about 56 mm (5.6 cm). [5] The measurement SPI (Stitches per inch) for leather pricking irons and stitch marking wheels also commonly uses the Paris inch instead of the Imperial inch.

  4. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Table of the measuring units used in the 17th century at Pernes-les-Fontaines in the covered market at Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Although in the pre-revolutionary era (before 1795) France used a system and units of measure that had many of the characteristics of contemporary English units (or the later Imperial System of units), France still lacked a unified ...

  5. Ligne - Wikipedia

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    The standardized conversion for a ligne is 2.2558291 mm (1 mm = 0.443296 ligne), [4] and it is abbreviated with the letter L or represented by the triple prime, ‴. [5] One ligne is the equivalent of 0.0888 international inch. This is comparable in size to the British measurement called "line" (one-twelfth of an English inch), used prior to ...

  6. Destiny (1946 film) - Wikipedia

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    Destiny (French: Destins) is a 1946 French musical comedy drama film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Tino Rossi, Micheline Francey and Mila Parély. [1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert.

  7. Tino Rossi - Wikipedia

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    During the Occupation of France by Nazi Germany Rossi's film career reached its peak, notably with Fièvres (1942), Le Soleil a toujours raison (1943), Mon amour est près de toi (1943) and L'Île d'amour (1944). Like many celebrities, Tino Rossi was arrested on 7 October 1944 by several police officers in search of information on his close ...

  8. The Island of Love - Wikipedia

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    The Island of Love (French: L'île d'amour) is a 1944 French drama film directed by Maurice Cam and starring Tino Rossi, Édouard Delmont and Josseline Gaël. [ 2 ] Synopsis

  9. The Kiss of Fire - Wikipedia

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    The Kiss of Fire (French: Naples au baiser de feu) is a 1937 French romantic comedy film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Tino Rossi, Michel Simon, Mireille Balin and Viviane Romance. [1] The film is based on the 1924 novel Naples au baiser de feu by Auguste Bailly .