Chaupine

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Chaupine was a French measure of volume for liquids and corresponded to the bottle .

  • 1 Chaupine = 0.4656589 liters (Paris value)
  • 2 chaupines = 1 pint = 0.9313178 liters

The small measure was in the measure chain

The pint was determined by the tonneau and thus had a strong influence on the amount of chaupine. In Burgundy it was 240 pintes to 223.5 liters, in Marcigny it was 242 pintes to 225.4 liters and in Mâcon 220 pints to 204.9 liters.

literature

  • WA Browne: The Merchants' Handbook. Edward Stanford, London 1867, p. 260

Individual evidence

  1. Pierre Charbonnier: Les anciennes mesures locales du Center-Est, d'après les tables de conversion. Presses Univ. Blaise Pascal, 2005, ISBN 978-2-84516272-3 , p. 292