Europe thought Napoleon Bonaparte was firmly in the dustbin of history. But the Corsican surprised everyone one last time.
Napoleon Bonaparte gets teased more than almost any historic figure, and somehow the joke always circles back to his height. You’ve heard the punchlines, the sitcom references, the memes—yet the numbers tell a wildly different story. In fact, he stood taller than the average Frenchman of his era. That twist alone should make you lean in, because the real story blends propaganda and a measure France used long before the inches on your tape. Stick around. The truth reshapes the picture you’ve carried for years, and the details are too good to skip.
Napoleon personally wrote a tremendous amount of juicy love letters to his wife Josephine, but tragically she couldn’t understand his handwriting.
There are many famous historical moments that never actually happened—so where did these stories come from?
Napoleon Bonaparte was born to a modest family in Corsica but rose to become the Emperor of almost all of Europe. As Emperor of France, Napoleon dominated European history for more than a decade, leading...
“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”—Gore Vidal There are many roads a person can take in an effort to gain power, but none is perhaps more controversial than the act...
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