King Louis XVI

Versailles

Versailles

Versailles, the Hall of Mirrors

Sculpture of Apollo

Versailles gardens

Third Estate Carrying the 1st and 2nd.

The National Assembly taking the Tennis Court Oath 

Storming The Bastille

Execution of Louis XVI facing the empty pedestal

where the statue Louis XV had stood.

Standard British weights7000 grains of barley = 1 pound16 drams = 1 ounce16 ounces = 1 pound7 pounds = 1 clove14 pounds = 1 stone28 pounds = 1 tod112 pounds = 1 hundredweight364 pounds = 1 sack2240 pounds = 1 ton2 stones = 1 quarter4 quarters = 1 hundredweight20 hundredweight = 1 ton

The Meter

One ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole (at sea level).

What else do we need to measure?Length

Volume

Weight (mass)TemperatureAnglesTimeSpeed (length per time)

1 milliliter of water fits perfectly in

1 cubic centimeter at 4º Celsius.

And it’s mass is exactly 1 gram.

Decimal Time

Map of Metric usage

Countries by date of metrication. Green = by 1800,  yellow = by 1900, red = by 1980 Black = Countries that have not adopted the metric system as the primary measurement system.

1804 Napoleon crowned as Emperor

Portrait of Napoleon

Europe Under Napoleon 1810

Moscow

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/minardmap.jpg France to Moscow and back 1812-1813

French History Timeline

• Monarchy 751-1792

• Revolution Republic 1792-1799

• Empire (Napoleon Bonaparte) 1799-1814

• Monarchy restored 1814-1848

• Revolution Second Republic 1848-1852

• Second Empire (Napoleon III) 1852-1870

• Third Republic 1870-1940

• Nazi occupation 1940-44

• Fourth Republic 1946

• Fifth Republic (Charles de Gaulle) 1958

Sainte Genevieve

Church of Sainte Geneviève, 1757 Paris

architect: Jacque Soufflot

patron: King Louis XV

Sainte Genevieve

Church of Saint Genevive

“The Pantheon”

“Aux Grands Hommes La Patrie Reconnaissante”

Sainte Genevieve, interior, The vault is cut-away wherever possible to achieve the effect of lightness which characterizes gothic architecture

Sainte Genevieve, interior

Foucault’s Pendulum

c.1700