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quarteron

Various units in French, the name indicating the unit is a fourth of some larger unit. But not always. In Troyes, 1 setier = 5 quarterons.¹

1. Félix Bourquelot.
Études sur les Foires de Champagne…
Mémoires préséntes par divers savants a l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de l'Institute Impérial de France. 2nd series, volume 5.
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1845.
Page 78.

1

In France, ? – late 18ᵗʰ century, a unit of mass in the poids de marc system, ¼ livre poids de marc, about 122.38 grams. 

2

In France, a unit of mass, ¼ of a cent or centaine, about  kilograms.

3

In Marseille and Toulon, France, a unit of liquid capacity for oil, about 400.05 milliliters.

4

Units of land area in France. In an area that is now Belgium (Hainaut province) and in northern France (Nord dept.), = ¼ journal.

In the department of Aisne, = 13 square verges, about 1,076 square meters (about 1,287 square yards).

At Montpellier, = 37 2/3 dextres, about 712 square meters.

5

In Switzerland, ? – 20ᵗʰ century, a unit of dry capacity, the French version of the Viertel. In 1835 twelve of the cantons in which German was the primary language signed a Konkordat establishing new weights and measures based on the sizes of units in the French metric system. In this system, the Viertel (and hence quarteron) = 15 liters (about 1.70 U.S. peck).

In the canton of Vaud, between 1823 and 1835, the quarteron was apparently equal in volume to the broc for liquids.

Doursther, 1840. Page 451.

6

In the Swiss canton of Vaud, a unit of liquid capacity, = ¹⁄₂₄ setier = 2 pots or (in German) Mass, about 1.993 liters. It was abolished in January 1823, replaced by the broc.

In Geneva, = ¹⁄₂₄ setier, about 1.904 liters.

Doursther, 1840. Page 451.

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