No. No document or eyewitness records her saying it. The line appeared in Rousseau's Confessions when she was a child, and was pinned on her decades after her death.
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No. Educated medieval Europeans generally knew the Earth was a sphere. The flat-Earth story is largely a modern myth, popularised in the nineteenth century.
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Napoleon was about 5 foot 5 to 5 foot 7 in English units, average or slightly above for a Frenchman of his era. The myth grew from unit confusion, his surroundings and hostile caricature.
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Horse manure was a real urban nuisance, but the 1894 Times prediction and the 'crisis' story trace to a 2004 article and cannot be verified.
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