Chaupine
Chaupine was a French measure of volume for liquids and corresponded to the bottle .
The small measure was in the measure chain
- 1 oil pin = 2 Chaupines / Chopines = 4 Chauveaux = 16 Melurettes (= 97 ¾ Parisian cubic inches )
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
- ↑ 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