1. King Louis XVI

2. Versailles
Versailles

3. Versailles, the Hall of Mirrors

4. Sculpture of Apollo

5. Versailles gardens

6. Third Estate Carrying the 1st
and
2nd
.

7. The National Assembly taking the Tennis Court Oath

8. Storming The Bastille

9. Execution of Louis XVI facing the empty pedestal
where the statue Louis XV had stood.

10. Standard British weights
7000 grains of barley = 1 pound
16 drams = 1 ounce
16 ounces = 1 pound
7 pounds = 1 clove
14 pounds = 1 stone
28 pounds = 1 tod
112 pounds = 1 hundredweight
364 pounds = 1 sack
2240 pounds = 1 ton
2 stones = 1 quarter
4 quarters = 1 hundredweight
20 hundredweight = 1 ton

11. The Meter
One ten-millionth of the distance from
the Earth's equator to the North
Pole (at sea level).

12. What else do we need to measure?
Length
Volume
Weight (mass)
Temperature
Angles
Time
Speed (length per time)
1 milliliter of water fits perfectly in
1 cubic centimeter at 4º Celsius.
And it’s mass is exactly 1 gram.

13. Decimal Time

14. Map of Metric usage
Countries by date of metrication.
Green = by 1800, yellow = by 1900, red = by 1980
Black = Countries that have not adopted the metric
system as the primary measurement system.

15. 1804 Napoleon crowned as Emperor

16. Portrait of Napoleon

17. Europe Under Napoleon 1810
Moscow

18. http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/minardmap.jpg
France to Moscow and back 1812-1813

19. French History Timeline
• Monarchy 751-1792
• Revolution  Republic 1792-1799
• Empire (Napoleon Bonaparte) 1799-1814
• Monarchy restored 1814-1848
• Revolution  Second Republic 1848-1852
• Second Empire (Napoleon III) 1852-1870
• Third Republic 1870-1940
• Nazi occupation 1940-44
• Fourth Republic 1946
• Fifth Republic (Charles de Gaulle) 1958

20. Sainte Genevieve
Church of
Sainte Geneviève,
1757 Paris
architect:
Jacque Soufflot
patron:
King Louis XV

21. Sainte Genevieve
Church of Saint Genevive
“The Pantheon”

22. “Aux Grands Hommes La Patrie Reconnaissante”

23. Sainte Genevieve, interior, The vault is cut-away wherever possible to achieve the
effect of lightness which characterizes gothic architecture

24. Sainte Genevieve, interior

25. Foucault’s Pendulum

26. c.1700