Editing Edith Wharton (section)

===Death===
[[File:Gardens at Pavilion Colombe Edith Wharton's villa.jpg|thumb|Wharton's ''Le Pavillon Colombe'', [[Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt]], France]]
[[File:Tombe Edith WHARTON, cimetière de Gonnards à VERSAILLES.jpg|thumb|right|Grave of Edith Wharton]]
On June 1, 1937, Wharton was at her French country home (shared with architect and interior decorator [[Ogden Codman]]), where she was at work on a revised edition of ''The Decoration of Houses'', when she suffered a heart attack and collapsed.{{sfn|Benstock|1994|p=86}}
 
She died of a [[stroke]] on August 11, 1937, at ''Le Pavillon Colombe'', her 18th-century house on [[Rue de Montmorency]] in [[Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt]]. She died at 5:30&nbsp;p.m., but her death was not known in Paris. At her bedside was her friend, [[Elisina Palamidessi de Castelvecchio Tyler|Mrs. Royall Tyler]].<ref>"Edith Wharton, 75, Is Dead in France". ''The New York Times'', August 13, 1937. Web. March 11, 2015.</ref> Wharton was buried in the American Protestant section of the [[Cimetière des Gonards]] in Versailles, "with all the honors owed a war hero and a chevalier of the Legion of Honor ... a group of some one hundred friends sang a verse of the hymn 'O Paradise'..."{{sfn|Benstock|1994|p=456}}