Did he refer to the Treaty of Sevres in 1920 that dismantled caliphates and sultanates?

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Elected an MP for the Deux-Sevres constituency in western France in 1988, she is currently president of the Poitou-Charentes regional council.

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It is still a surprise, for people used to the immaculate technical refinement of Sevres or Wedgwood, to see the lack of finish of Koetsu tea bowls.

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In 1920, the Treaty of Sevres was signed between Turkey and the Allied powers after World War One, relieving Turkey of much of the land ruled by the Ottoman Empire.

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Because of this, the actual International Prototype Kilogram (yes, there does only seem to be one in existence) is stored in a vault in Sevres, France, limiting the lay person's ability to determine the actual weight of a kilogram.

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