Main entry on the toise
Almost all of these equivalencies are from France in the period during which the metric system was being introduced. The numbers of decimal places given for some of the equivalencies are quite fantastical, but we have quoted them as they were printed.
In some departments of France "toise" and "canne" were synonymous; in others they are very different units.
The notes in parentheses following an equivalent in meters indicate the source of the equivalence and the page number in that source. Later sources that duplicate an older one have not been given. G = Gattey; D = Doursther
| Locale | Name | Equivalencies | Length, Meters |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department | Canton, commun, cities | |||
| Aisne | same as Paris | |||
| Aube | same as Paris | |||
| Aude | same as Paris | |||
| Bas-Rhin | Strasbourg | Klafter | = 6 pieds de pays | 1.7697 (G236) |
| Basses-Alpes | same as Paris | |||
| Calvados | same as Paris | |||
| Cantal | Montmurat | 1.991 (G119) | ||
| used for surveying land | toise de ville | = 6½ pieds de Paris | 2.111 (G119), 2.1115 (D525) | |
| same as Paris | ||||
| Charente | Angoulême | toise de Guyenne | = 6 pieds de Guyenne | 2.0787 (G121), 2.079 |
| same as Paris | ||||
| Côte d'Or | = 7 pieds, 6 pouces | 2.4363 (G127) | ||
| same as Paris | ||||
| Côtes-du-Nord | = 8 pieds de Paris | 2.599 (G128), 2.5987 (D525) | ||
| same as Paris | ||||
| Deux-Sèvres | toise marchande | = 6 pieds 2 pouces | 2.003 (G260) | |
| toise particuliere | 2.030 | |||
| same as Paris | ||||
| Doubs | Besançon | toise de Besançon, perche | = 9 pieds de Besançon | 2.8326 (G131), 2.832599 (D384) |
| toise ancienne de Bourgogne | = 9½ pieds anciens de Bourgogne | 3.1417 (G131) | ||
| toise le Comte | = 7 pieds le Comte | 2.5036 (G131), 2.5025 (D525) | ||
| toise de roi | = 6 pieds | 1.9490 (G131) | ||
| Drôme | toise épiscopale | 1.8491 (G132) | ||
| toise delphinale | = 6 pieds - 8 pans | 2.04607 (G132), 2.0461 (D525) | ||
| same as Paris | ||||
| Eure | same as Paris | |||
| Forêts | toise de France | 7.949 (G139) | ||
| toise de Saint-Lambert | 1.771 (G139) | |||
| Gard | same as Paris | |||
| Gers | same as Paris | |||
| Gironde | same as Paris | |||
| Guyenne | = 6 pieds | 2.0787 (D525) | ||
| Hautes-Alpes | Ville-Vielle | 1.0303 (G104) | ||
| Embrun, Chorges, Saint-Clément, Baratier, Saint-Chaffray | toise delphinale | = 6 pieds = 6 pan | 2.0007 (G104) | |
| Grave, Monestier | 1.9006 (G104) | |||
| Saint-Eusèbe, Saint-Firmin, Lasalle | 2.0607 (G104) | |||
| elsewhere | toise ordinaire | = 6 pieds = 8 pans | 1.9506 (G103), 2.001 | |
| Haute-Garonne | same as Paris | |||
| Haute-Marne | Chaumont | toise de bailliage de Chaumont | = 9 pieds (each of 11 pouces) | 2.6799 (G190) |
| same as Paris | toise de roi | |||
| Haut-Rhin | = 10 pied de Montbelliard | 2.893 (G237) | ||
| Ille-et-Vilaine | same as Paris | |||
| Indre-et-Loire | same as Paris | |||
| Isère | toise de mandement, toise épiscopale | 1.90393 (G160) | ||
| toise delphinale | = 6 pieds = 8 pans | 2.04607 (G159), 2.0461 (D525) | ||
| same as Paris | ||||
| Jura | toise le comte | 2.506 (G164) | ||
| Léman | same as Paris | |||
| = 8 pieds de roi | 2.599 (G167) | |||
| = 8 pieds de Chambre | 2.737 (G168) | |||
| Loire | same as Paris | |||
| St. Etienne, Bourg-d'Argental, le Chambon, Firminy, La Fouillouse, Saint-Genest-Malifaux | = 5½ pieds de Paris | 1.7866 (G169), 2.506 | ||
| Boeuf, Maclas | = 5¾ pieds de Paris | 1.8678 (G169), 1.858 | ||
| Rive-de-Gier, Saint-Paul-en-Jarret, Saint-Romain-en-Jarret | 2.5632 (G169) | |||
| Lozère | same as Paris | |||
| Maine-et-Loire | same as Paris | |||
| Marne | same as Paris | |||
| Mayenne | same as Paris | |||
| Meurthe | Vic | toise de Vic | 2.7069 (G192) | |
| Lorraine | toise de Lorraine | 2.8593 (G192), 1.7156 (D526) | ||
| same as Paris | toise de France | |||
| Mont-Blanc | = 8 pieds de chambre | 2.715 (G204) | ||
| = 7½ pieds de chambre | 2.765 (G204) | |||
| = 6 pieds de chambre | 2.052 (G204) | |||
| Mont-Terrible | Porentruy, Delemont, Rheinach, Moutiers | 1.9490 (G205) | ||
| Courtelary | 1.7866 (G205) | |||
| Montbéliard | 2.8934 (G206) | |||
| Morbihan | same as Paris | |||
| Moselle | same as Paris | |||
| toise de Lorraine | = 6 pieds de Lorraine | 1.7156 (G208) | ||
| toise de Lorraine | = 10 pieds de Lorraine | 2.8592 (G208) | ||
| Nièvre | same as Paris | |||
| Oise | same as Paris | |||
| Pas-de-Calais | toise de comte | 1.7866 (G227) | ||
| same as Paris | ||||
| Rhône | Villefranche | toise de roi | = 7½ pieds de Paris | 2.4363 (G244) |
| Lyon | toise de ville | = 7½ pieds de ville | 2.5688 (G243), 2.5687 (D526) | |
| Saône-et-Loire | Bourgogne | toise de Bourgogne | 2.444 (G248) | |
| Metz | toise de Lorraine | = 6 pieds de Lorraine | 1.7156 (D526) | |
| Sambre-et-Meuse | same as Paris | toise de France | ||
| = 6 pieds de Namur | 1.7686 (G245) | |||
| toise de Saint-Hubert | = 6 pieds | 1.7681 (G245) | ||
| toise de Saint-Lambert | = 6 pieds de Liége | 1.7507 (G245) | ||
| Sarthe | same as Paris | |||
| Seine | Paris | 1.94904 (G250) | ||
| Seine Inférieure | same as Paris | |||
| Seine-et-Oise | same as Paris | |||
| Vosges | Lorraine | toise de Lorraine | 2.859 (G276) | |
| Ruppes | toise de Ruppes | 2.910 (G276) | ||
| same as Paris | toise de Paris | |||
| Yonne | same as Paris | toise de Paris | ||
| toise de Bourgogne | = 7½ pieds | 2.4363 (G277) | ||
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