Visited the magnificent Pere Lachaise graveyard on a family trip to Paris last weekend. I was last there 20 years ago, and wanted to revisit Oscar Wilde's grave, with its stunning Jacob Epstein sculpture. On my earlier visit, it had a few lipstick marks here and there, left by Wilde's fans, and I read later that they were destroying the stone. At the risk of sounding like "incensed of Tunbridge Wells" or some other such middle class citadel, I have to admit to being gutted to see the damage done by so-called "fans" in the intervening decades. So much so that I couldn't even be bothered to hang around long enough to take a proper photo. Whatever happened to quiet veneration?