Editing Maurice Chevalier (section)

==Death and burial==
Chevalier suffered from bouts of depression throughout his adult life. On 7 March 1971, he attempted suicide by overdosing on [[barbiturate]]s. Rushed to the hospital, Chevalier was saved but suffered liver and kidney damage as a result of the drug. In the following months, he suffered memory lapses, chronic tiredness, and spent much of his time alone. On 12 December, he fell ill and was taken to Paris's [[Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital|Necker Hospital]] and placed on dialysis. By 30 December, doctors announced his kidneys were no longer responding to dialysis. Too frail for a transplant, he underwent surgery as a last-ditch effort to save his life. It was unsuccessful; Chevalier died from a cardiac arrest following kidney surgery on New Year's Day 1972, aged 83.

He is interred in the cemetery of Marnes-la-Coquette in [[Hauts-de-Seine]], outside Paris, France with his mother, "La Louque".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/02/archives/maurice-chevalier-dead-singer-and-actor-was-83.html|title=Maurice Chevalier Dead; Singer and Actor Was 83|date=February 14, 1972|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Chevalier has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1651 Vine Street.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/maurice-chevalier/|title = Maurice Chevalier|date = October 25, 2019}}</ref>

Author Michael Freedland later claimed in his 1981 biography of Chevalier that the actor Felix Paquet, who became close to Chevalier during the 1960s, cut off contact with all of his friends and family in hopes of securing access to his fortune. Freedland alleges that Paquet, eighteen years Chevalier's junior, intercepted mail and withheld information about Maurice's health in the months before his death.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freedland |first1=Michael |title=Maurice Chevalier |date=1981 |publisher=Morrow |location=New York |isbn=0688006523 |edition=1st}}</ref>