The story behind it
Napoleon wasn't particularly short.
After his death in 1821, his height was recorded as 5 feet 2 inches – in French units. Converted, that is just under 1.70 metres, the height of an average Frenchman around 1800. Only for an officer or aristocrat was he on the short side. It was mainly the Briton James Gillray who drew him as a dwarf.
