This case was one of simple arrest of development, affecting all the organs of the body; he was not virile.
He was a child of large parents; had two brothers and a sister of ordinary size and two brothers dwarfs, one 6 inches higher and the other his size.
Several personages famous in history have been dwarfs.

Attila, the historian Procopius, Gregory of Tours, Pepin le Bref, Charles III, King of Naples, and Albert the Grand were dwarfs.

About the middle of the seventeenth century the French episcopacy possessed among its members a dwarf renowned for his intelligence.

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.