Encyclopedia > Sevres

Article Content

Sevres

Sèvres is a commune of the Hauts-de-Seine département in France. It is a suburb of Paris.

The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) in Sèvres keeps the standard kilogram, atomic clocks[?], and other metrological devices.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Sakhalin

... on the Bay of Aniva. The native inhabitants consist of some 2000 Gilyaks, 1300 Ainus, with 750 Orochons[?], 200 Tunguses[?] and Some Yakuts. The Gilyaks in the north ...