Napoleon's Privates

"I wanted to write a book and start it off, you know, what makes a good historical story," he says. "And then I realised how many amazing sort of little episodes ... through history of this extraordinary sex clubs in the 18th century." The film is based on 'very tenuous evidence' that J. Gahouva Krusters had an intense relationship with his homoerotic sidekick - which doesn't seem to be true. He actually died mid-90s or something like that.