The terrible fate of Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, strangled by her stole caught in the wheel of a car
data-modal-image-caption=An American pioneer of modern dance, Isadora Duncan found success in France at the end of the 19th century , but also tragedy. Her two children drowned in the Seine on April 13, 1913, fourteen years before her accidental death in Nice. data-modal-image-credit=Everett Collection / Aurimages> 
Every day, Le Figaro recounts the fatal car accident of a celebrity. Today, the story of the American artist, who died on September 14, 1927, in horrific circumstances.
Handsome, he's not yet 30. A racing driver born in Nice in 1900, Benoît Falchetto will compete in around twenty races from 1928 onwards, most of them in Bugattis. For the time being, in this month of September 1927, he is still a mechanic. And he has caught the eye of a woman almost twice his age: Isadora Duncan . Born on May 26 (or 27), 1877 in San Francisco , the pioneer of modern dance is an icon. Revered by the European artistic avant-garde of the 20th century as well as by contemporary dancers and choreographers.
In her time, she was either adored or criticized for having thrown conventions to the wind. Whether it was classical ballet, whose rules she shook up with her freedom of expression, her spontaneity, the absence of scenery or staging, and her way of moving with bare legs and feet, dressed in transparent and flowing togas in reference to the canons of beauty of Ancient Greece, which she praised.
Isadora Duncan also stood out for the bubbling of her feminist ideas...
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