article_snippet: Napoleon was notoriously small.
article_snippet: For this information, we can thank a cruel pathologist who allegedly removed Napoleon
article_snippet: ‘item’ after Napoleon death and pickled his death in formaldehyde.
article_snippet: his death was later auctioned in Paris.
article_snippet: Heaven knows if the object in that jar, indeed, belonged to the 19th century French emperor, but his death was used against Napoleon posthumously as a way of diminishing Napoleon reputation.
article_snippet: Even if a great man was on the ‘petit’ side, Bonaparte was a mighty general with unarguable power.