POIDS ET MESURES. Dites moi donc! Mme. Gavin, en v'la des inventions! j'vas m'acheter une robe, et on me parle étranger; ils me baragouinent des Mêtres, des Thermomètres, des Baromètres!... a-t-on vu ça. - Et moi donc, la fruitière au lieu de quatre onces de beurre, elle m'emberlificote avec des Grammes! des Filagrammes et des Programmes!...

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Title:
POIDS ET MESURES. Dites moi donc! Mme. Gavin, en v'la des inventions! j'vas m'acheter une robe, et on me parle étranger; ils me baragouinent des Mêtres, des Thermomètres, des Baromètres!... a-t-on vu ça. - Et moi donc, la fruitière au lieu de quatre onces de beurre, elle m'emberlificote avec des Grammes! des Filagrammes et des Programmes!...
Title (alt.):
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Tell me! Mme. Gavin, what are all these inventions! I buy myself a dress and they talk to me about meters, thermometers, barometers!... can you imagine. - And look at me, the grocer instead of 4 ounces of butter suddenly mumbles about grams! filigrams and programs!..... Charivari
Description:
Two women are complaining about the change in the measuring system of weights and lengths. The law of July 4, 1837 brought the introduction of the metric system to France from January 1840 on. As early as 1790, the Academy of Science was asked to develop such a system. The meter became the new unity for the measuring of distances. Only in 1960, a convention for measures and distances was agreed upon on an international basis.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1840
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Conversation pieces
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 36.5 x 25 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/4726
Terms of Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
3rd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, February 11, 1840.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD791b