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Fatal Bicycle Accident

When
10 June 1899
Where
Limay, Yvelines, France
Part of
Composer Ernest Chausson dies in bicycle accident

Chausson died instantly on 10 June 1899 when his bicycle struck a brick wall while riding downhill at Limay, Yvelines.

While staying at one of his country retreats, the Château de Moussets, in Limay, Yvelines, the 44-year-old composer was riding his bicycle downhill when he hit a brick wall and died instantly. The exact circumstances remain unclear, though it was probably an accident. Debussy's biographer Edward Lockspeiser propounded a suicide theory, but Chausson's own biographer Ralph Scott Grover has more recently rejected it.

Sources

  1. Ernest Chausson Wikipedia, revision of 2026-05-13

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