Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution (league) had a number of variations, particularly the "aune" (which was used to measure cloth The "loi du 19 frimaire an VIII" (Law of 10 December 1799) states that one decimal metre is exactly 443.296 French lines, or "3 pieds 11.296 lignes de la "Toise du Pérou"". Thus the French royal foot is exactly 9000/27,706 metres (about 0.3248 m). In Quebec, the surveys in French units were converted using the relationship 1 "pied" (of the French variety, the same word being used for English feet as well) = 12.789 English inches. This makes the Quebec "pied" very slightly smaller (about
Xenosaga: Pied Piper Monolith Soft handled the story development. External studio Tom Create helped develop the game. The creation of "Pied Piper" formed part of a move by the newly-established lead developers of "Xenosaga" to expand the series into other media following the release of "Episode I". The game's script was co-written by series creators Tetsuya Takahashi and his wife Soraya Saga. "Pied Piper" was Saga's last contribution to the "Xenosaga" series prior to leaving the project in 2005. The game's title is a reference to the German fable of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. "Pied Piper" was first announced in July 2004.