The Fall Of The House Of Wilde (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
William did not join them. This disappointed Jane. She had thought ‘some change’ would do them all good – they were still feeling unhinged after Isola’s death. William’s health may have been a factor. Equally, the crude materialism of the whole set-up associated with the Universal Exposition, not least of which was its militarism, may not have been to his liking. Certainly it was not to the liking of Jane, who saw these ‘vulgar things’ as ‘not suited for minds of . . . high tone’. She still went, though she told Lotten she was going only ‘to amuse my sons during their vacation’.1 Jane and the boys were among more than six million people to visit Paris that year. Napoleon III had spent over a decade transforming the city, and the exposition was the apogee of this reorganisation. During the seven months of the exposition hardly a week passed without the emperor showing off the capital to some potentate – from the King of Prussia to the Prince of Wales. Displays of military pomp and muscle were staged for these crowned heads.
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