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Short but Feisty

windsquid1993 · 2022-05-10T02:06:40+00:00

Unsure if this is the best place to post this, but I've noticed short women with an attitude are called feisty and it's usually seen as a...

windsquid1993

May 10, 2022

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Title	Short but Feisty
Author	windsquid1993
Upvotes	4
Comments	5
Date	May 10, 2022 2:06 AM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/um7kng/short_but_feisty/
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[–]Neat_Zookeepergame99 9 points10 points11 points 4 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

[–]windsquid1993[S] 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

[–]tenchineuro 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

But Napoleon was not actually short.

https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short
Was Napoleon Short? Origins of the 'Napoleon Complex'
One of the world’s most instantly recognizable cultural icons, Napoleon Bonaparte is usually depicted with one hand in his waistcoat—and short and aggressive. His supposedly small stature and fiery temper has inspired the term the Napoleon Complex, a popular belief that short men tend to compensate for their lack of height through domineering behavior and aggression.
But was Napoleon really short?
In fact, he was probably of average height. According to pre–metric system French measures, he was a diminutive 5′2.” But the French inch (pouce) of the time was 2.7 cm, while the Imperial inch was shorter, at 2.54 cm. Three French sources—his valet Constant, General Gourgaud, and his personal physician Francesco Antommarchi—said that Napoleon's height was just over ‘5 pieds 2 pouces’ (5’2”). Applying the French measurements of the time, that equals around 1.69 meters, or just over 5’5”. So at 5’5” he was just an inch or so below the period’s average adult male height.
So if Napoleon was of average height, where does the legend of his small stature come from? It was, in fact, largely the work of one man: the British cartoonist James Gillray (1756-1815). Gillray’s caricatural depictions of the French general were so popular and influential that at the end of his life Napoleon said that Gillray “did more than all the armies of Europe to bring me down.”

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