Queue (unit)

The cue was a French liquid measure with regional differences for all liquids with preference on wine and brandy .

Generally it was true

• 1 queue = 3 feuillettes = 1 ½ muids ( Poinçon )

Was in Bourgogne

• 1 queue = 20,736 Parisian cubic inches = 411 liters

in the Champagne was

• 1 queue = 18,161 Parisian cubic inches = 360 liters

in Dijon , Mâcon and Orléans was

• 1 queue = 20,428 Parisian cubic inches = 405 liters

In Nantes there was still the demi-queue.

• 1 Demi-Queue = 227.24 liters

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 271.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 343.
2. ^ Johann Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 1, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 702.