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[–] Yorick@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Indeed the 5'6" height is in French foots/inch. One of the most infuencial thing Napoleon made possible is to spread the metric system across conquered land, which would make the british/French system confusion irrelevant if they got it. (Napoleon was actually 1m 68, which is correct everywhere that uses metric across all time)