"Her great popularity in France was increased by the entire nation's sympathy when in 1913 her two young children also perished in an automobile tragedy. The car in which they had been left seated started, driverless, down a hill and plunged over a bridge into the Seine River."
Interesting.......
Somebody forgot to put the brake on!
The French just love peculiar American expatriates like Duncan and Josephine Baker and Jerry Lewis. This probably has more to do with nudity than talent (except of course for Lewis, whose popularity is incomprehensible to the non-Gallic observer).