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The Meter Convention

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

May 20, 1875. The Meter Convention is signed by 17 nations, establishing a system for standardizing measurements worldwide. This episode originally aired in 2025.

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Music do it the right way with indeed it's may it's may 8th 1794 in paris france five years into the french revolution on the back of a battered cart 50- 50-year-old scientist Antoine Lavoisier hunches down,

0:57.5

trying to shield his face.

0:59.5

As he passes, the angry crowd lining the street

1:02.3

shouts insults at him

1:03.7

and hurls rotten vegetables,

1:05.4

rocks, and clumps of mud in its direction.

1:08.2

Despite being one of France's greatest scientist,

1:12.6

Antoine has been locked away in prison for months, and now his past ties to the deposed king Louis XVIth have sealed his fate. Antoine

1:19.9

has just been convicted as a traitor to the revolution, and now execution awaits. The cart bumps

1:26.5

and rattles over the cobblestones, drawing closer and closer to

1:30.0

the scaffold. Finally, it jerks to a halt in a wide public square seething with spectators.

1:36.6

Antoine stumbles as he's pulled from the cart. The guards grip his arms, guiding Antoine's

1:41.6

trembling legs to the scaffold. There the executioner and his

1:45.3

guillotine await. Antoine is pushed to the ground and forced to kneel, and his head is placed

1:50.9

beneath the blade. An eerie silence falls over the crowd, and for a brief moment everything goes still.

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