What is a Napoleon Cat you ask?
The Napoleon is a Munchkin crossed with a Persian, an Himalayan or a Exotic Shorthair. 

HERE'S SOME VERY HELPFUL INFORMATION IF YOU PLAN ON BREEDING SHOWABLE NAPOLEON  CATS

http://www.napoleoncatbreed.com/napoleonnews.html

The breed was originally "created" and founded by Joseph Smith in 1996. It is a new and exciting hybrid that is currently being registered with The International Cat Association (TICA), the second largest registry of cats in North America.

This is a e-mail from Joe Smith, June 16th 2009!

''The Napoleon "journey" began with the Wall Street's publication of the article on the Munchkin on June 12, 1995.  I was immediately enamored with the short legged cat.  Having been been a Basset breeder I felt it was about time the short legged gene came to the cat world.  Further research revealed good news and bad news.  The good news was that this "short gene" did not hamper the cat in any way and involved only the long bones of the legs, as in short legged dogs.  The bad news was this gene, although dominant, could not be had in a homozygous form, breedings would always result in long legged kittens that do not carry the gene.  I loved the Munchkin cat but felt that the unavoidable long legged versions were indistinguishable from what was filling up animal shelters all over the country.  In my mind, something had to be done to make this cat unique in both versions ... something that "looked" purebred.  I chose the Persian Group for these reasons:  Boning and beauty.  In essence, the Napoleon enhances the Munchkin by bringing in boning, coat and glamor, and improves the Persian by dropping the nose, thereby easing the stress to tear glands and napes.  Add the short legs and you have a beautiful cat that should be a pleasure to show and own ... with its long legged versions being just as glamorous and unique, albeit without the short legs.  The Napoleon standard was written with all of this in mind.  In essence, when one sees a good Napoleon, one should see round, round, round ... round head, round eyes, small round ears, round nose (with NO break ... just a gentle slope).  The coat should be abundant (long or short).  No big-eared, angular faced mutts, please!  ;o)
 
I first approached TICA around 2001 or 2002
Hope this helps! Joe'' 

Thank you Joe Smith for your help!! 

The Napoleons are a new cat breed "in process" meaning that they have begun the long journey of acceptance as an official breed with the International Cat Association (TICA). 

The Napoleon will in essence look like a baby doll faced Persian/Himi/Exotic with the shortened legs of a Munchkin.  The Napoleons have their own standard (specifics on how round the face should be, how stocky of a frame and cobby of a body, what size and shape ears, etc.) which is different than the Munchkins.  Basically, the head needs to be broad and very rounded, eyes large and round, slight doming on the top of the head with small ears. The nose should be short with no break and the body should be well muscled and solid.

The Persian breed has evolved over the years into an extremely flat faced (very pug nosed) cat and so many people are still infatuated with the old traditional look of the Persian of yester-year. So, the Napoleons combine two cute adorable looks into one breed - with the sweet baby doll faces of the traditional Persian with the short rughugger legs of the Munchkin - all in a slightly smaller body frame. It seems to be a winning combination. The Napoleons have the sweet affectionate personality of both of their heritage breeds (Munchkins & Persians) but tend to be a bit more interactive than the typical Persian. 

They too like to sit up on their hind legs and perch in that stance for a bit. With the shortened legs (front and back), I believe that their balance is just increased in this position. It is an adorable position and a unique tendency to these two breeds (Munchkins & Napoleons).The breed is young and only in the early stages of acceptance. TICA (The International Cat Association) has accepted them into the registration stage which allows breeders to begin the arduous work of setting a standard, voting in a breed committee, working with a group of breeders to get some kittens available to the general public, and try to set some agreeable standards.  The interest is high - partly because the Persian breed group has been the most popular breed in the U.S. for oodles of years so there is a keen following to the traditional looking Persian of yester-year... plus the short little legs just naturally draw on their attention and get cute points.

Both Munchkins and Napoleons can be born shortlegged or longlegged.  This is part of dealing with a breed from a mutation...

Joe Smith is credited for founding the Napoleons in 1996. 

He loved the shortlegged creatures (the Munchkins) but thought that by using outcrosses of Persians, Himalayans, or Exotic Shorthairs (PHE) instead of the domestics, you could produce a "sweet baby doll faced" kitten with the short legs - making their appeal greater (his viewpoint being that the Persians/Himalayans/Exotic Shorthairs are the most wide-spread and popular breeds in the world) plus when you produced the longleggeds in those same litters, that they would in turn look like a pet quality PHE at a fraction of the price - thus being desirable and much more "place-able."  So began his trek towards acceptance.

The Napoleons were to be different in several ways from their Munchkin counterpart.  And again, a written and detailed standard would be written describing every aspect of the perfect Napoleon cat.  The Napoleons would be a larger cat in weight and in body mass (considering the outcross, this is understandable). The Naps would have marble round eyes instead of the Munchkin  walnut-shaped eyes.  The Naps would have a rounder head shape and a shorter nose placement as well as shorter ear size. 

Joe Smith has emphasized that he DOES NOT want the Napoleons to go the route of the modern day Persian - Himalayan with the extreme peke-faced look - but wants to maintain the health and sweet open expression of the "baby doll faced" old-fashioned Persians (a.k.a. pet Persian look).  It will take many years to perfect the face and look of the Napoleons - it took the Munchkins 15+ years to begin to show some consistentsy (and there is a long road ahead still on that front) - so breeding the Napoleons back to typier Naps or typier PHE will help the Naps "look" be more distinctive from the Munchkins.

Developed with TICA in 2002, the Napoleon Cat is a hybrid (a breed developed from a deliberate cross between two existing breeds) between the Munchkin and the Persian/Exotic including the Himalayan (Colourpoint) Persian. Longhaired Munchkins already exist, but the Napoleon combines traits from both breeds into a unique look. It is neither a short-legged Persian nor a bushy-furred Munchkin. The Napoleon is a short-legged cat with heavy boning, round head, round eyes and a colorful coat. Its fur can be either long (like the Persian) or short like the Exotic. Its features are intermediate between the two parent breeds. A pure Napoleon is 75% Persian/Exotic and 25% Munchkin. It does not have the snub nose, nor even the nose break above the nose, of the Persian, but at the same time it doesn't have the wedge-shaped head or walnut-shaped eyes of the Munchkin. As with other breeds derived from the Munchkin, long-legged variants also occur. 

Napoleon Cats are not a shorter version of a Persian Cat, they have their own breed standards on how round the face should be, how stocky of a frame and cobby of a body, what size and shape ears, etc

While the Standard for a Napoleon Cat is Short Legs you can also have Long Legged cats (these are called non-standard). Napoleon Cats come as they come and even if you breed short legged to short legged cat there are still no guarantees you will receive short legged kittens. However when you do they are a real treasure.

Temperament
These cats have a very good temperament, they love to run and jump and play like Munchkins but they have a quiet calm loving side too, they love to cuddle up in your lap between games and watch the world go by, and purr to their hearts content. 

Although one might think they would just sit and not do much because of their short legs this is far from the truth, They don't know they have short legs in fact some of our cats don't know they shouldn't be able to get on the bench but they do. They think about how they are going to get to where they want to go.  We have seen one of our kittens get to the top of a 5 foot high bird cage by first jumping on the scratching post then onto the TV across the top of the TV and making a huge leap across to the Bird Cage, only to be removed very promptly  

Another cat who wanted to get to the benchtop couldn't quite jump high enough and he couldn't get to the barstool, so a few days later when I put a box next to the barstool, he checked this out but still couldn't quite make it.  So a couple of weeks later when he noticed I had put a second box on the first, that was high enough to get from the floor to the bar stool and ultimately onto the bench.

They are funny to watch when they walk as they can have a little waddle, due to their shorter than normal legs.  They are quite heavy footed when they run, you can certainly hear them coming full speed from one room to another.