French farms were measured by the arpent and were staked out in long and narrow oblongs.

Along its sweeping bends the chimneys of a smoking commerce, the magazines of surplus wealth, the gardens of the opulent, the steeples of a hundred sanctuaries and thousands on thousands of mansions and hovels covered the fertile birthright arpents which 'Sieur George, in his fifty years' stay, had seen tricked away from dull colonial Esaus by their blue-eyed brethren of the North.

Each of the temples in this place occupy nearly ten arpents of ground, and all are very neat, with their brick pavements polished like glass.

E. [20] An arpent is a French measure nearly one and a half of which are equal to an English acre.

"My father was a gentleman, the owner of a thousand arpents of land, and his son is not going to flinch in the king's service.

The arpent was the standard unit of area in the Creole parishes of Louisiana, the acre in the parishes of Anglo-American settlement.]

PANNETON, PHILIPPE. Trente arpents.

Irente arpents.

PANNETON, PHILIPPE. Trente arpents.

Irente arpents.

The portion of the common set aside for agriculture was divided into strips of one arpent in front by forty in depth, and one or more allotted to each inhabitant according to his skill and industry as a cultivator.

The arpent, as used by the western French, was a rather rough measure of surface, less in size than an acre.

An arpent of land was 180 French feet square.

With the derivation of the actus may be compared that of the English furlong (furrow-long) and the French arpent (literally, head land).]

He became desperate, and did a thing I have known more than one planter to do: wrote his pledge for every arpent of his land and every slave on it, and staked that.

Napoleon Buonaparte" (Italian pronounciation) "will make good every arpent within the next two years.