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

Flapper

... as early as 1912. Writers and artists in the United States such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Held, Jr.[?], and Anita Loos[?] popularized the flapper look and lifestyle ...