Wilde is brought to court in April of 1895 on charges of gross indecency. During the trial, Wilde's affinity for Huysmans's A Rebours is brought as evidence against his character. A specific passage in A Rebours in which Huysmans alludes to multiple places homosexual men were known to meet-up through-out Paris is used against Wilde in court; in A Rebours, Huysmans suggests a sexual relationship between the protagonist, Des Esseintes, and a young man he meets asking directions towards Rue de Babylon. During trial, Wilde denies the yellow book given to Dorian by Lord Henry in his novel is A Rebours, even to the point of including purposefully incorrect chapter references, but the description in the text makes very clear exactly what French novel unravels Dorian's conscious. Wilde is sentenced to two years of hard labor.