This
diminutive man, called Godeau, made such a success in literature
that by the grace of Richelieu he was named the Archbishop of
Grasse. He died in 1672. The Dutch painter Doos, the English
painter Gibson (who was about 3 feet in height and the father of
nine infants by a wife of about the same height), Prince Eugene,
and the Spanish Admiral Gravina were dwarfs. Fleury and Garry,
the actors
Hay, a member of Parliament from Sussex in the last century;
Hussein-Pasha, celebrated for his reforms under Selim III; the
Danish antiquarian and voyager, Arendt, and Baron Denon were men
far below the average size Varro says that there were two
gentlemen of Rome who from their decorations must have belonged
to an Equestrian Order, and who were but 2 Roman cubits (about 3
feet) high. Pliny also speaks of them as preserved in their
coffins.
It may be remarked that perhaps certain women are predisposed to
give birth to dwarfs. Borwilaski had a brother and a sister who
were dwarfs. In the middle of the seventeenth century a woman
brought forth four dwarfs, and in the eighteenth century a dwarf
named Hopkins had a sister as small as he was. Therese Souvray,
the dwarf fiancee of Bebe, had a dwarf sister 41 inches high.
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