Editing Django Reinhardt (section)

=== Final years ===
[[File:Django Reinhardt Plaque Samois.JPG|right|thumb|Plaque commemorating Reinhardt at [[Samois-sur-Seine]]]]

In 1951, Reinhardt retired to [[Samois-sur-Seine]], near [[Fontainebleau]], where he lived until his death. He continued to play in Paris jazz clubs and began playing electric guitar. (He often used a Selmer fitted with an electric pickup, despite his initial hesitation about the instrument.) In his final recordings, made with his Nouvelle Quintette in the last few months of his life, he had begun moving in a new musical direction, in which he assimilated the vocabulary of [[bebop]] and fused it with his own melodic style.<ref name=Givan>{{cite book|first=Benjamin|last=Givan|title=The Music of Django Reinhardt|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-472-03408-6|pages=158–94}}</ref>

On 16 May 1953, while walking home from [[Fontainebleau–Avon station]] after playing in a Paris club, he collapsed outside his house from a [[brain hemorrhage]].<ref name=Delaunay />{{rp|160}}
It was a Saturday, and it took a full day for a doctor to arrive.<ref name=Delaunay />{{rp|161}} Reinhardt was declared [[dead on arrival]] at the hospital in Fontainebleau, at the age of 43.