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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.



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