As it’s LGBT History Month and the news has been full of the exciting recent discovery of the diary of Yorkshire farmer Matthew Tomlinson from 1810, in which he showcased a surprisingly progressive attitude towards homosexuality, I thought it seemed like a good time to take a look at the man who was probably the most high-profile gay person in Napoleonic France.
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