Casanova described his own height as "Ayant la taille de cinq pieds et neuf pouces" ("Having the height of five feet nine inches"), (Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle Les Plombs, Éditions Bossard, Paris, 1922, p. 58.) By pieds, Casanova refers to the French king's foot which was 12.8 modern inches or 32.48 cm. The pouce or historic French inch was slightly larger in modern inches: 1.067英寸（2.71 cm）. Thus, Casanova's height can be calculated as having been around 1.868 m or about 6 feet, 1.5 inches. He was about 16 cm or 3 inches taller than the average European man of that time. (Jörg Baten, Mikołaj Szołtysek (January 2012) MPIDR Working Paper WP 2012-002 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: The Human Capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European Perspective. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Casanova described his own height as "Ayant la taille de cinq pieds et neuf pouces" ("Having the height of five feet nine inches"), (Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle Les Plombs, Éditions Bossard, Paris, 1922, p. 58.) By pieds, Casanova refers to the French king's foot which was 12.8 modern inches or 32.48 cm. The pouce or historic French inch was slightly larger in modern inches: 1.067英寸（2.71 cm）. Thus, Casanova's height can be calculated as having been around 1.868 m or about 6 feet, 1.5 inches. He was about 16 cm or 3 inches taller than the average European man of that time. (Jörg Baten, Mikołaj Szołtysek (January 2012) MPIDR Working Paper WP 2012-002 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: The Human Capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European Perspective. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
