A short\u002Dtempered, child\u002Dsized Napoleon soon became the accepted standard for caricatures of the Frenchman
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Nevertheless, this doesn’t explain why British cartoons from the latter years of the Napoleonic Wars have a persistent theme of the Frenchman being ridiculously small. Before the circulation of Little Boney, Napoleon “was of normal stature,” Clayton noted in an email to the National Post. British readers could soon see a miniscule Napoleon wearing oversized boots and shaking his fist across the Channel. Or trying to talk tough beneath an enormous bicorne hat dwarfing his entire body. Or struggling to pull a sword from an unwieldy scabbard that dragged along the ground as he walked.Article contentDuring a brief period of Franco-British peace in the early 1800s, the French leader sent a flurry of diplomatic notes across the English Channel demanding that Britain censor its press.
Much like anyone else who tries to conquer Europe, Napoleon had a well-documented vision of himself as a “great man” of history.Little Boney Goes to Pot, an 1814 cartoon published after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, depicting him as an exiled drug addict too cowardly to attempt suicide.
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