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[OC] A snippet from a Historical Scifi/Fantasy story I'm writing about the Witch Trials.
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You reference kilometers in the text. The metric system was invented in 1668, meaning at the time of the Salem witch trials a kilometer would not be used as a standard measurement unless the narrator was on the cutting edge of cartography, especially in America.
So it turns out the French actually invented metric, which I had no idea, lol. Colette does have occasional correspondence back home, and she originally came as a Royal Court spy. So it's conceivable shed learn about it and start using it because it's objectively simpler. But I'll fix it in the flashback scenes.
The trials are 1692. But I admit it didn't even occur to me to check for that. But also, my main characters are French. They're not really pilgrims, and definitely not Puritans. But they have been here since 1497, so I guess that doesn't matter.