Paris cleans lipstick off Oscar Wilde grave

Paris cleans lipstick off Oscar Wilde grave
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Summary Wilde enthusiasts will have to contend with paying their tributes through a glass screen.

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 writers cream-colored grave.But from this week onwards, with Wednesday marking the 111th anniversary of the Dublin playwrights death, Wilde enthusiasts will have to contend with paying their tributes through a glass screen at arms length from the tomb.