 In his later years he gained quite a bit of weight and had a complexion considered pale or sallow, something contemporaries took note of.Novelist Paul de Kock, who saw him in 1811 on the balcony of the Tuileries, called Napoleon "yellow, obese, and bloated".A British captain who met him in 1815 stated "I felt very much disappointed, as I believe everyone else did, in his appearance ...