TALLER FRENCH YOUTHS
Young Frenchmen are an inch taller than those of the pre-war generation, according to statistivs which have just been issued in Paris. The height of the average French boy of seventeen is now oft. I Jin. In the same period girls have grown only half an inch. The average French girl of seventeen now is -Ift. 10in.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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