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Was Napoleon really that short? For his day and age and did he have short man syndrom? (lemmy.world)
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[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Also a french foot at the time was 326mm whereas nowadays a foot is 304mm.

That makes it seem like he was shorter if you are reading the height in french feet but interpreting it as normal imperial feet.