Grave of Oscar Wilde

Grave of the writer Oscar Wilde in Paris, France in the Cimetière du Père Lachaise. Covered in lipstick from admiring kisses...

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• Cimetière
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• Père
• Lachaise
• oscar
• wilde
• grave
• stone
• memorial
• paris
• france

[BellatrixsTwin]

haha i was there! I left a kiss mark :)

[markhillary]

@BellatrixsTwin did you really kiss it too then?

[anamallover]

Just wondering who was he???

[markhillary]

assuming you are joking...

[anamallover]

Really I never heard of him before

[markhillary]

Put Oscar Wilde into Wikipedia - lots of info there

[dimspace]

Every time i see oscar wildes tomb in oaris it annoys me more and more.. The first time i went back in about 2002, it was covered in lipstick kisses, that kind of added something to it, and lipstick after all washes off.. By 2007 people had started writing comments on it, and by 2008 the tomb is covered head to toe in graffiti declaring love to oscar wilde.. Does somebody who really respects somebody deface there tomb.. good video, but people sadden me with there disrespect.. :/

[janicesoprano]

Robbie Ross was one of Oscar's closest friends. When Oscar was re-entombed at Pere Lachaise, I believe eight years after Oscar died, Robbie Ross was instrumental in tidying up Oscar's estate, enabling Oscar's sons to achieve any royalties, etc. from his books. Robbie Ross's ashes are entombed in Oscar's grave. These best friends are together forever. God bless them both!

[gilliamjf]

Read in the Wikipedia article of Pere Lachaise Cemetery, the cemetery is to erect a glass partition around the gravesite to keep people's lipstick off of the stone. Don't destroy history people!

[theblackparade1039]

ahh... so many kisses Oscar would've blushed (maybe)

[theviker]

the cleaning is destroying the stone, years from now there may not be an original tomb but a replica, its like people taking a bit of stone henge with them, its selfish..leave flowers, leave a poem, not corrosive oil on lime stone

[theviker]

I wish people would stop kissing it though, i did read that they have to clean it every 4 years and in doing so it damages the scultpure, in a hundred years from now they may be little of the originnal sculpture which historically is as important as the man inside

[M1sterHamilton]

i went to the toumb in 07 and i have a pic of this tiny sign "do not deface this it is protected as a national monument in accordance with civil law" or something like that....i looked up and smiled :)

[dropitall11]

i dont see any harm in kissing a stone..been doin it for years , myself

[medea1990]

At 0:35 I red "Semper cum omnibus".

I means " Always with all of us".

I love Oscar Wilde, so I say "Amen" answering that.

Thank you for uploading it!

[bobduvar]

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death"

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn't love her"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures"

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"

If you know these sentences, you Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde dead in Paris and laid in Père Lachaise cemetary in Paris.