MIND STANDARD OF THE MAIN
NAPOLEON PHYSICALLY UNFIT. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] PARIS, Doc. 23. Napoleon was physically C 111. stan. Idard and would have been rejected if he had attempted to fight in the Great War, according to Dr. Thoris, of the {French Morphological Society. He says: “At the age of 17 when he became an officer I would have been compelled to reject Napoleon because ho was too thin and at 30 because he was too fat. At any other age he would have been rejected on the ground of his low' chest measurement He had a 'body without lungs and a stomach of muscle.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3490, 27 December 1926, Page 2
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