If a chilogramme (kilogramme) of water fall through 772 feet, its temperature will rise one degree Fahrenheit. To discover, then, from what greater height a chilogramme of water must fall to raise its temperature to one degree centigrade, the following proportion will suffice:—100 : 180 : : 772 : 1389.6. But 1389 feet are equal to 423 metres; thus the mechanical equivalent of heat, according to the French system, is 423 metres, by falling through which a chilogramme of water rises through one degree centigrade. […] In the ascending scale a thousand grammes is called a kilogramme or chilogramme. The chilogramme is something less than 2+¹⁄₄ lb. imperial, or consists of 15432.3 English grains. The chilogramme is the commercial unit of weight in France, as the gramme is the basis of scientific weights.

For R.I.M. to bite off just a tiny piece of that market would help it grow considerably.

Here was an excellent entry of hounds which would have fulfilled the late Earl Bathurst's dictum that breeders should always breed from hounds rather larger than those which they expect to put on.

The dominant metre in Les Fleurs du Mal is the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the defining metre of French versification, with the eight-syllable line a distant runner-up and the ten-syllable line barely visible.