PARIS - For no special reason other than his life and times, I have long been fascinated by the life of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. I took that interest to a new level on Friday with a visit to his ...
PARIS (Reuters) - For over a decade, Oscar Wilde fans have flocked to a famous Paris cemetery with lipstick in hand and left red and pink kiss marks all over the Irish writer's cream-colored grave.
Fancy having your final resting place next to the stars? Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among ...
There are also 10 plots in Montparnasse cemetery, home to writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Susan Sontag, as ...
Parisians can win burial spots in the world-famous cemeteries of Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre as part of a monument restoration scheme.
In 1981 Carolyn Campbell, a publicist at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., took the advice of her mentor, art critic John Russell. Campbell jumped on a bargain flight to France to visit ...
Each subsequent chapter takes readers to a different graveyard. Her wandering leads her from Cuba to Chile to the Czech Republic. She goes to the grand tombs of Highgate Cemetery in London and to ...
LONDON — “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,” Oscar Wilde wrote more than a century ago, “and that is not being talked about.” Wilde would be pleased to know what a ...