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Hundreds come every year to pay their respects to Oscar Wilde's final resting place, at Paris's famous Père Lachaise cemetery. But the tradition of kissing his memorial, or inscribing it with graffiti, has had a deletorious effect over the years, and the tomb has been teetering on disrepair. Now, the Irish people have stepped up, funding a major renovation project for the site -- leaving the tomb as it would have looked when it was first unveiled. Film star Rupert Everett was among those admiring the new tomb. Images and soundbites