Editing Isadora Duncan (section)

== Death ==
[[File:AX Isadora Duncan Tomb crop.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|Duncan's tomb at [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]]]
On September 14, 1927, in [[Nice]], France, Duncan was a passenger in an [[Amilcar CGSS]] automobile owned by {{ill|Benoît Falchetto|fr}}, a French-Italian mechanic. She wore a long, flowing, hand-painted silk scarf, created by the Russian-born artist [[Roman Chatov]], a gift from her friend Mary Desti, the mother of American filmmaker [[Preston Sturges]]. Desti, who saw Duncan off, had asked her to wear a cape in the open-air vehicle because of the cold weather, but she would agree to wear only the scarf.<ref name=sturges2>Sturges (1990), pp. 227–230</ref> As they departed, she reportedly said to Desti and some companions, "{{lang|fr|Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire!}} " ("Farewell, my friends. I go to glory!"); but according to the American novelist [[Glenway Wescott]], Desti later told him that Duncan's actual parting words were, {{lang|fr|"Je vais à l'amour"}} ("I am off to love"). Desti considered this embarrassing, as it suggested that she and Falchetto were going to her hotel for a tryst.<ref>{{cite web|title=DEATH By Flowing Scarf – Isadora Duncan, USA|url=http://death.stkittsthegreat.com/death-by-flowing-scarf-isadora-duncan-usa/|website=True Stories of Strange Deaths|access-date=18 May 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506061126/http://death.stkittsthegreat.com/death-by-flowing-scarf-isadora-duncan-usa/|archive-date=6 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Isadora Duncan Meets Fate|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-isadora-duncan-19270915-story.html|access-date=18 May 2016|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Isadora Duncan killed in Paris under wheels of car she was buying|url=http://clickamericana.com/eras/1920s/dancer-isadora-duncan-killed-in-bizarre-accident-1927|access-date=18 May 2016|publisher=Sandusky Star Journal|date=September 15, 1927}}</ref>

Her silk scarf, draped around her neck, became entangled in the wheel well around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, pulling her from the open car and breaking her neck.<ref name="Craine" /> Desti said she called out to warn Duncan about the scarf almost immediately after the car left. Desti took Duncan to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<ref name=sturges2 />

As ''[[The New York Times]]'' noted in its obituary, Duncan "met a tragic death at Nice on the [[Riviera]]". "According to dispatches from Nice, Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed by the force of her fall to the stone pavement."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30C10F9355F17738DDDAC0994D1405B878EF1D3|title=Isadora Duncan, Dragged by Scarf from Auto, Killed; Dancer Is Thrown to Road While Riding at Nice and Her Neck Is Broken|date=1927-09-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2007-07-02|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Other sources noted that she was almost decapitated by the sudden tightening of the scarf around her neck.<ref>{{Citation|author=Janet Flanner|title=Episode 179, Season 6|date = 1972-06-16 | work = [[The Dick Cavett Show]]}}</ref> The accident gave rise to [[Gertrude Stein]]'s remark that "affectations can be dangerous".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.threehundredwords.com/2009/07/affectations-can-be-dangerous.html|title=Affectations Can Be Dangerous|website=Three Hundred Words|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010172857/http://www.threehundredwords.com/2009/07/affectations-can-be-dangerous.html|archive-date=2013-10-10|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the time of her death, Duncan was a Soviet citizen. Her will was the first of a Soviet citizen to undergo [[probate]] in the U.S.<ref name=Petrucelli>{{cite book|last1=Petrucelli|first1=Alan|title=Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous|date=2009}}</ref>

Duncan was cremated, and her ashes were placed next to those of her children<ref name="wound magazine">{{Cite journal|author=Kavanagh, Nicola|date=May 2008|title=Decline and Fall|journal=Wound Magazine|issue=3|page=113|location=London|issn=1755-800X}}</ref> in the [[columbarium]] at [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mmK5QwkzfTMC&dq=isadora+duncan+columbarium&pg=PA144 ''Hemingway: The Homecoming'']</ref> On the headstone of her grave is inscribed ''École du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris'' ("Ballet School of the Opera of Paris").