HAUTES-PROVENCE ALPS. “WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.” (title). “Exce - Lot 329

HAUTES-PROVENCE ALPS. “WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.” (title). “Excerpt from the Registers of Decrees of the Prefecture of the BASSES-ALPES Department.” Issued at DIGNE on the 16th of Floréal, Year 10 (May 6, 1802). “Effective the first of Messidor of this year, the new decimal system of weights and measures will be definitively mandatory throughout the entire department. Consequently, the use of the old weights and measures will be prohibited as of that same date… ” Vignette: “French Republic, The Law.” Printed in DIGNE by the GUICHARD Brothers, Printers of the Basses-Alpes Department. Poster (43 x 36) Condition B.

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