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    NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

    Popularly considered to be the world’s worst sufferer of short man’s syndrome, the Corsican artilleryman was actually of roughly average size — the myth that he was a teeny-tiny, little-bitty man comes from a mistranslation of French measurements. His appetite for booze, on the other hand, was pretty robust: Upon his exile to Elba, the limited list of personal possessions he was allowed included some 200 bottles of delicious Courvoisier and an unknown (but apparently even larger) amount of wine.

    Napoleon was quite fond of the bubbly; one of his famous bon mots (pardon my French) was, “In victory, you deserve champagne; in defeat, you need it.” Given that Napoleon’s career was marked by near-constant combat, he had reason to put away a lot of fine French fizzy wine.