Hope it stays looking good and you enjoy it <| sep |> Can ' t . uspez is too busy raping children . <| sep |> Average height was indeed shorter then . But regardless , he is still described numerous times as short . A description by Hyde de Neuville , Royalist conspirator , in his memoirs The door opened . Instinctively I looked at the man who came in , short , thin , his hair plastered on his temples . Miot de Melito at the time of the first Italian Campaign I was singularly impressed by his appearance . Nothing corresponded to the picture which my fancy had made of him . In the middle of a number of Staff officers I noticed a man under middle height , of extraordinary leanness . Joseph Farington The Farington Diary , New York G . H . Doran , 19238 in 1802 observed Napoleon close up . His person is below middle size . I do not think him more than 5 feet 6 , I rather judge him to be less than that measure . Mr . West the famous painter thinks otherwise . West thinks him 5 feet 7 inches high . A description of Napoleon by Doctor Corvisart in 1802 Napoleon was of short stature , about five feet two inches by French measure 5 feet 6 inches , English measure . Dennis Davidov ' s description from his Memoirs of Napoleon at Tilsit in 1807 The man I saw was of short stature . He held himself erect without the least effort , as is common with all short people . But what was peculiar to him alone was a nobility of bearing and an urbane , martial air , which undoubtedly was derived from the habit of commanding men .