Editing Émile Durkheim (section)

==Death==
[[File:Grave of Émile Durkheim in Montparnasse Cemetery.jpg|thumb|Grave of Émile Durkheim, the founder of sociology, in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France]]

The outbreak of [[World War I]] was to have a tragic effect on Durkheim's life. His [[Left-wing politics|leftism]] was always patriotic rather than [[Internationalism (politics)|internationalist]], in that he sought a secular, rational form of French life. However, the onset of the war, and the inevitable [[French nationalism|nationalist]] [[propaganda]] that followed, made it difficult to sustain this already nuanced position. While Durkheim actively worked to support his country in the war, his reluctance to give in to simplistic nationalist fervor (combined with his Jewish background) made him a natural target of the now-ascendant [[Politics of France#The Right|French Right]]. Even more seriously, the generations of students that Durkheim had trained were now being drafted to serve in the army, many of them perishing in the trenches.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Finally, Durkheim's own son, André, died on the war front in December 1915—a loss from which Durkheim never recovered.<ref name="Calhoun2002-105" /><ref name="Allan_105">{{harvp|Allan|2005|p=105}}</ref> Emotionally devastated, Durkheim collapsed of a [[stroke]] in Paris two years later, on 15 November 1917.<ref name="Allan_105" /> He was buried at the [[Montparnasse Cemetery]] in Paris.<ref name="Pickering">{{harvp|Pickering|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gUl5F0uLrkUC&dq=%C3%89mile+Durkheim+Cimeti%C3%A8re+de+Montparnasse&pg=PA11 p. 11]}}</ref>