Le Figaro - Sunday, November 24, 1895
This report was originally published in French. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
A Travers Paris
Les prisons d'Oscar Wilde !
Il n'y a pas six mois que ce malheureux est condamné et il en est à sa quatrième prison. Quelles curieuses impressions il pourra écrire quand, dans dix-huit mois, il recouvrera la liberté !
Il n’y a pas six mois qu'Oscar Wilde est condamné et il en est à sa quatrième prison. Quelles curieuses impressions il pourrait écrire quand, dans dix huits mois, il recouvrera la liberté!
Tout d'abord on l'a envoyé à Hollovay, d'Holloway à Pentonville, de Pentonville à Wandsworth, et maintenant, de cette dernière prison il vient d'être transféré à Reading, sur la route d'Oxford. Sera-ce sa dernière étape ? On ne sait. Mais on aurait aussi bien fait de le laisser à Wandsworth, où il était à l'infirmerie depuis de commencement d'octobre. A cette époque, en effet, le médecin de la prison constata que Wilde, qui a beaucoup maigri, ne pouvait sans danger être soumis au régime si strict et si rigoureux des prisons anglaises.
Through Paris
Oscar Wilde's prisons!
It has not been six months since this unfortunate man was sentenced and he is in his fourth prison term. What curious impressions he will be able to write when, in eighteen months, he recovers his freedom!
First he was sent to Hollovay, from Holloway to Pentonville, from Pentonville to Wandsworth, and now from the latter prison he has just been transferred to Reading, on the Oxford road. Will this be his last step? We do not know. But we might as well have left him at Wandsworth, where he had been in the infirmary since the beginning of October. At that time, in fact, the prison doctor noted that Wilde, who had lost a great deal of weight, could not without danger be subjected to the strict and rigorous regime of English prisons.