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Oscar Wilde's death certificate, 1900. 'Préfecture du Département de la Seine' (Prefecture of the Seine Department), Paris. Irish playwright and author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was sent to prison for 'sodomy', and served two years of hard labour. He died in Paris three years after leaving prison. From 'The life of Oscar Wilde' by Robert Harborough Sherard. [1906].