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===Death=== At the beginning of 1938, he worked as a language and literature professor in Paris,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture|last=Kinsbruner|first=Jay|publisher=Gale|year=2008|location=Detroit|pages=274–275}}</ref> but in March he suffered from physical exhaustion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=2&docId=GALE%7CCX2507200481&docType=Biography&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2507200481&searchId=R1&userGroupName=byuprovo&inPS=true|title=Vallejo, Cesar}}</ref> On March 24 he was hospitalized for an unknown disease (it was later understood that it was the reactivation of a kind of [[malaria]], which he had suffered as a child), and on April 7 and 8 he became critically ill. He died a week later, on April 15,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://latinosinlondon.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/cesarvallejo74/|title= Cesar Vallejo Tribute 2012 |newspaper= WWW.LATINOSINLONDON.COM |date= April 16, 2012 |editor=LATIN POETS UK|access-date= November 6, 2012}}</ref> a holy<!-- Why not say what religious day it was? -->, rainy Friday in Paris. It was not a Thursday, as he seemed to have predicted in his poem «"Black Stone on a White Stone"». His death was fictionalized in [[Roberto Bolaño]]'s novel ''[[Monsieur Pain]].'' He was [[embalmed]]. His funeral eulogy was written by the French writer [[Louis Aragon]]. On April 19, his remains were transferred to the Mansion of Culture, and later to the Montrouge cemetery. On April 3, 1970, his widow, [[Georgette Vallejo]], had his remains moved and reinterred in the [[Montparnasse cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesar-Vallejo|title=Cesar Vallejo|website=britannica.com |access-date=2017-03-01}}</ref>
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