Avenue de l'Observatoire

This dates from the time when Longitude could be measured, not merely from Greenwich, but from Paris.
This avenue, from Saint-Sulpice to the Paris Observatory, runs along the Paris Meridian.
A standard METRE was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, via this avenue.


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