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As to WHY I’m thinking of this...

Long series of events in my mind has brought me to this query. Initially, I was simply looking at paintings.

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman , caricaturist, and illustrator. His best known works resulting from deep immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century.

Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.

Toulouse-Lautrec's parents, the Comte and Comtesse, were first cousins. He suffered poor health all his life. His congenital defects were attributed to the familial inbreeding (his grandmothers were sisters).

At the age of 13, Toulouse-Lautrec fractured his right femur, and at 14, he fractured his left femur. The breaks did not heal properly. Afterward, his legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was (1.42 M or 4 ft 8 in).

It is said He developed an adult-sized torso while retaining his child-sized legs (27. 5 inches 0.6985 M).

25- 27 inches is considered NORMAL Inseam for an adult person between 5 ft and 5 ft 3- which is significantly taller then his 4 ft 8. I find the insistence his height was due to his “ child size” legs with “ adult torso” very puzzling and bizarre. His legs are 27.5 inches. His Overall height 56 inches.

Yes he was relatively short, but his legs were not _disproportionately_ short. Yet his legs being “stunted and torso being fully developed” being the cares of excessive leg/ torso discrepancy, is emphasized in every document.

Possibly they are counting his leg length from waist to floor. Not the inseam. That would make a considerable difference, However, legs are typically measures from inseam. It would be sloppy. Therefore unlikely considering the magnitude of attention his case received.