Manuscripts, photographs, paintings and personal items among the displays in honour of playwright who died in city
Paris will hold its first major exhibition on the life and work of Oscar Wilde next month, co-curated by his grandson.
Wilde, who spoke fluent French, was an ardent Francophile who regularly visited the city, eventually dying there in 1900, having been hounded out of England after his conviction for homosexuality. His tomb, in Paris’s Père Lachaise cemetery, is now a place of pilgrimage.
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