The untold struggle of Oscar Wilde

It’s been more than a decade when France finally acknowledges the importance of being earnest and pays tribute to Oscar Wilde, the writer who died penniless in a fleapit Paris hotel saying, “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.” Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of Londons most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Author Oscar Wilde published several acclaimed works, including The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Importance of Being Earnest. The first major exhibition in the French capital on the Irish wit and playwright opened on Wednesday portraying the hardships of wilde. Wilde fled to Paris in 1897 after being hounded out of England having served two years in jail with hard labour for his doomed love for Lord Alfred Douglas. The show also included the photos of the bedroom in the Hotel d’Alsace on Paris’ Left Bank where he spent his final days on credit from its kindly owner. With this, the grade II listed seven-floor house overrun by the writer is on sale for £15million after a lavish modern makeover. It is believed that in the late 19th century, when Wilde was one of the locals, had spent much of his time socialising at the Flemings Tavern, which was located directly adjacent to the property which is on sale now. During Wildes time the property itself was subdivided into bachelor’s chambers, where his close friend, Robert Ross, lived and Wilde is said to have been a regular visitor. Remembering Oscar Wilde, Peter Wetherell, Chief Executive of Wetherell said, “Half Moon Street and this part of Mayfair captured the imagination of Oscar Wilde and the location is repeatedly cast and mentioned in his various plays.”-WTN