Paul Philippe Gudin de la Brenellerie (1738–1820)

"M. Gudin has generally expressed his measures according to the old, as well as the new standard which is a convenience to me, as I do not make a point of retaining the last in my memory. I confess indeed, I do not like the new system of French measures, because not the best, and adopted to a standard accessible to themselves exclusively, and to be obtained by other nations only from them..." - Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, September 11, 1811 [PTJ:RS 4:147-149]