The famous dancer was born in San Francisco in 1877. She had a very important contribution in creating contemporary dance. Her life is marked by the tragedy of the death of her two children, drowned in the Seine river after a car accident, in Paris.
Sho moved to Nice in august 1927.
Shortly after, she was eating in the Negresco restaurant with a friend who has just offered her a scarf. During the diner, a young man she knew offered to take her back home in his convertible car, an Amilcar. She got in the car, wrapping the scarf around her neck. The tragedy occured. The end of the scarf jammed itself in the spokes of one of the wheels. When the car started, the scarf broke her neck. Before the car stopped, her corpse had been thrown on the road.
Isadora Duncan was dead.