Quartaut

Quartaut was a French measure of volume and also the name for a wine container. The measure means quarter ton.

• 1 quartaut = ¼ muid = 9 setiers / veltes = 36 quarters / pots = 72 pintes

The half quartaut was an eighth muid. In places like Blois , Dijon , Mâcon and Orléans , 104, Champagne 95 and Paris 72 pintes were reckoned a quartaut.

In Brittany it was a measure of salt .

• Nantes 52 quartauts = 1 muid (salt)

literature

• Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 119, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1811, p. 275.

Individual evidence

1. ^ FG Leonhardi: Economic booklets for the city and farmer. Volume 6, Voss and company, Leipzig 1796, p. 281