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The metric system of measurement was originally established in France in 1790, after which it swiftly swept all of Europe in a multinational effort to standardize measurement across cultures.

The United States' metric council did recommend the country covert to the metric system, but they refused to make it mandatory. Instead, it was just a recommendation.

Now widely used around the world, the metric system of measuring distances, weights and heights is a model of simplicity - but is it French?