Napoleon’s height is all over the map. Some put him at 5’5” or 5’6” which was average for a frog at the time. Others point to his autopsy which indicates only 5’2” after dying in exile. Maybe he shrunk with poor health and age, which happens. “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” and all that, wot wot.
Some trivia regarding height ( taken by asking SIRI on iPhone )
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Adolf Hitler 5’9”
Joseph Stalin 5’6”
Mao Tze Tung 5’11”
Queen Victoria 5’1”
Emperor Hirohito 5’5”
FDR 6’2”
Harry Truman 5’9”
Gen. George Patton 6”
Sadden Hussein 6’1”
Osama Bin Ladin 6’5”
Bruce Lee 5’8”
Alexander the Great 5’2”
Abraham Lincoln 6’4”
George Washington 6’2”
John Adam’s 5’7”
Thomas Jefferson 6’2”
James Madison 5’4”
I saw a supposed death mask of Napoleon in museum in Florida that was laughably huge. But in the Cabildo museum in New Orleans, the curator said the death mask they have is one of only two made and that it was legitimate. I could have covered his face with one hand.
He said Napoleon was sensitive about his size, always had portrait painters represent him larger, and only had it done, out of vanity, because Roman emperors had it done.