The Secret Garden
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Photo reblogged from the triumph of magic over the brute.
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“Incroyable” - from Fancy Dresses Described, or What to Wear at Fancy Balls by Ardern Holt.
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Photo reblogged from The Armchair Reader of Weird, Scary & Unusual Stuf
Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) was not especially short. After his death in 1821, the French emperor’s height was recorded as 5 feet 2 inches in French feet. This corresponds to 5 feet 6.5 inches in modern international feet, or 1.686 metres His nickname was le petit caporal (The Little Corporal). There are competing explanations for why he was called this, but few modern scholars believe it referred to his stature. Another explanation is that Napoleon was often seen with his Imperial Guard, which contributed to the perception of him being short because the Imperial Guards were above average height.
I thought he was called “le petit caporal” not because of his actual height, but because he was despised by the ones calling him that way. They called him “petit” because they wanted to imply that he was not part of an old noble family and his original rank in the army was below average. In the early 19th century Europe, Napoléon is a kind of “self-made-man” a “nouveau riche” who had emerged thanks to the French Revolution, and it’s not something very well-considered in other European countries back then.
But as a matter of fact, French people were not very tall in the 18th-19th century and most of the Imperial guards were from foreign countries so they might have made Naopélon look very short in comparison. The caricatures might have “helped” as well, it’s like Louis the XIVth, most people think he was pretty short because the British caricaturists drew him as a very short guy with a huge wig and very high heels, but in fact Louis the XIVth was pretty tall (even without the wig and the heels).
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Photo reblogged from the triumph of magic over the brute.
“Incroyable” - from Fancy Dresses Described, or What to Wear at Fancy Balls by Ardern Holt.
Photo reblogged from The Armchair Reader of Weird, Scary & Unusual Stuf
Napoleon Bonaparte (pictured) was not especially short. After his death in 1821, the French emperor’s height was recorded as 5 feet 2 inches in French feet. This corresponds to 5 feet 6.5 inches in modern international feet, or 1.686 metres His nickname was le petit caporal (The Little Corporal). There are competing explanations for why he was called this, but few modern scholars believe it referred to his stature. Another explanation is that Napoleon was often seen with his Imperial Guard, which contributed to the perception of him being short because the Imperial Guards were above average height.
I thought he was called “le petit caporal” not because of his actual height, but because he was despised by the ones calling him that way. They called him “petit” because they wanted to imply that he was not part of an old noble family and his original rank in the army was below average. In the early 19th century Europe, Napoléon is a kind of “self-made-man” a “nouveau riche” who had emerged thanks to the French Revolution, and it’s not something very well-considered in other European countries back then.
But as a matter of fact, French people were not very tall in the 18th-19th century and most of the Imperial guards were from foreign countries so they might have made Naopélon look very short in comparison. The caricatures might have “helped” as well, it’s like Louis the XIVth, most people think he was pretty short because the British caricaturists drew him as a very short guy with a huge wig and very high heels, but in fact Louis the XIVth was pretty tall (even without the wig and the heels).
