Paris hosts its first major exhibition dedicated to Oscar Wilde It has taken more than a century, but France is finally paying fulsome 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." The first major exhibition in the French capital on the Irish wit and playwright is open until January 15. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES