Topic
Historical Myths & Memory
Compact corrections for historical stories that survive because the memorable version is cleaner than the evidence.
Entries
- Napoleon's Height MythNapoleon was probably around 1.68–1.69 m tall — about 5 ft 6½ in in modern units. That was not unusually short for a French man of his era and may have been around average or somewhat above it depending on the comparison sample.