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Why people think Napoleon was really short (even though he wasn't)
A short-tempered, child-sized Napoleon soon became the accepted standard for caricatures of the Frenchman
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More than years after his death, the French autocrat and conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte is making headlines again due to the just-announced upcoming release of the big budget epic Napoleon, starting Joaquin Phoenix. But while Napoleon himself wanted to be remembered as a benevolent ruler of men, one of the most remembered traits of the man is that he was of short stature. Which is weird because Napoleon was actually taller than average. Below, the National Post’s Tristin Hopper explains how this misconception became so widespread. This story was originally published in
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