Marque (unit)

The marque was a French measure of volume and length.

Wood measure

The marque for timber was limited to Le Havre and allowed until 1840.

• 1 marque = 300 chevilles = 3600 cubic inches (metric) = 2 1/12 cubic feet (metric) = 0.07711 cubic meters
  • 1 Cheville ≈ 257.2 cubic centimeters

Textile measure

The marque was a measure of cloth lengths.

• 1 marque = 3 aunes / cubits

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Coin, measure and weight book: the monetary, measure and exchange system, the rates, government papers, banks, trading establishments and customs of all countries and important places. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, p. 275.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 180 .