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.

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Parisians can win burial spots in the world-famous cemeteries of Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre as part of a monument restoration scheme.