# Salomé is issued in French as a public beheading-spectacle play

Date: 1893

## The fact

In 1893 Salomé appeared in French as a public play of eroticised beheading. The English-stage ban is a different, state row.

It is one event.

## Context

The play can be symbolist art and can teach a woman’s desire as a killing joke. Medium confidence. Split censorship as the Lord Chamberlain’s act.

[Oscar Wilde](/people/oscar-wilde)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

British Library drama holdings and Britannica independently date the 1893 French publication.

Official or archival record: British Library (https://www.bl.uk/; British Library).

## Significance

A printed beheading-erotic is a dignity-risk path of medium confidence, not the ban.

The 1892 English-stage refusal is not this publication.

A printed beheading-erotic is a dignity-risk path of medium confidence, not the ban.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1893 public French Salomé. Not established: a unique harm series from Paris type.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Oscar Wilde.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

The attached driver is [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights). Later museums, UNESCO listings, Loeb reprints, and 2024–2025 COP or NATO rows are not this event. Responsibility 0.55 and influence 0.55 bound the path; they are not a personality score. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Readers should open both named URLs.

## People

- Oscar Wilde: https://factrail.ai/people/oscar-wilde

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde
- https://www.bl.uk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-salome-spectacle-1893