IRISH playwright Oscar Wilde moved into a hotel in Paris in February 1898 for what turned out to be the final 18 months of his life. The Dubliner had been released from Reading jail the previous su… ...

From rock 'n' roll royalty to literary giants, the graves of famous figures draw millions annually. Elvis Presley's Graceland ...

PARIS, Nov. 30.—Oscar Wilde died at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Maison du Perier, Due des Beaux Arts, in the Latin Quarter. It is a small, obscure hotel, at which Wilde had been living for ...

[ Oscar Wilde, my grandfather, ‘talked himself into prison’ Opens in new window ] In Paris, a capital with a low tree cover, the cemetery’s canopy helps mitigate the effects of increasingly ...

Hotel Café Royal reopens Oscar Wilde bar as grill restaurant - Until recently used for afternoon tea, the room is now a grill ...

Oscar Wilde, the 20th century’s most famous sexual dissident, has been dead 100 years to the day. From his deathbed in a seedy Paris hotel, he has seeped into our collective consciousness and ...

Some readers and WBEZ listeners may know that I teach theater part-time at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which is why I was in Paris two weeks ago. No, UIC didn’t send me (couldn’t ...

"Today, Oscar Wilde, lying in extremis at the Hôtel d'Alsace, 13 Rue des Beaux Arts, Paris, was conditionally baptized by me, Cuthbert Dunne. He died the following day having received at my hands ...

Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife, too.

Oscar Wilde was hardly any stranger to controversy. Born in Ireland in 1854, the novelist, ... Epstein came to Paris and pulled the tarp off, but the cloth was soon replaced, ...