Peyrefitte leaves it to the imagination whether the two eventually also have sex or not, but at any rate the outcome is tragic for the two boys.
On the set of the film, Peyrefitte met the 12-year-old aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villele who had been cast as a choir boy and was a big fan of the book.
Peyrefitte was on (mostly) friendly terms with Henry de Montherlant, who in his later years wrote a novel (Les garçons, 1969) about a similar relationship.
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