A plaque in honour of D.H Lawrence is being unveiled in Paris to remember the time the author spent in Paris organising printing of his banned novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
The British Council, along with British Ambassador to France, Edward Llewellyn, will unveil the plaque at the site of the Grand Hotel de Versailles on Wednesday (May 22) at 5.30pm.
Lawrence stayed at the hotel 90 years ago, from March 12 to April 7, 1929.
Dave Brock, a former editor of the D.H. Lawrence Society Newsletter who now runs his own group The Lawrence Players, said: "D.H. Lawrence was in Paris between February and April 1929 organising the publication of a cheap unexpurgated edition of his great controversial novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, which could not be printed in the UK due to censorship.
"Pirated editions of Lawrence's powerful plea to us all to reconnect with the healing power of nature and love were selling like hotcakes in Europe and America through unscrupulous booksellers, denying the author himself any much-needed income."
The unveiling ceremony will take place on the Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris and will be followed by three short lectures and a reception at the British Counci.
Lady Chatterley's Lover is still proving controversial nearly 60 years after the famous obscenity trial at the Old Bailey.
The novel, the last that Eastwood-born wrote before his death in 1930, was published in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929, but not in England until 1960.
That led to publisher Penguin Books being taken to court for obscenity, a trial it emerged from victorious.
Last year, the paperback copy of the book used by judge Sir Laurence Byrne in the trial sold for £56,250 at auction to a foreign buyer.
But the Government put a temporary block on the export of the book, giving buyers in this country the chance to raise the funds to keep it here.
