<Li> One of the eighteen seats on the CIPM would always be filled by a Frenchman . </Li> <Li> France would provide premises for the secretariat . These premises, at the Pavillon de Breteuil, near Paris would have a diplomatic status . </Li> <Li> New prototypes of the kilogram and metre would be manufactured . These were ultimately made in England and delivered in 1889 . </Li> <P> Thus the French metre and kilogram passed into international control . </P>

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