After Napoleon's death, his autopsy report showed that Napoleon's official height was 5 feet 2 inches, or about 1 68 meters  It is not tall by current standards, but historians estimate that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the average height of the French was about 1 66 to 1 67 meters  The idea that Napoleon is a short man has something to do with the international politics between Britain and France  After the rupture of the Peace of Amiens in 1803, the British media wrote Napoleon's height of 5 feet 2 inches in the newspaper and painted it in cartoons, but did not indicate his unit of length  British readers use inches to understand Napoleon's height, which translates to 1
57 meters
It is necessary to look at Napoleon's height from a historical perspective.