12/28/2023 0 Comments Isadora duncan bugattiThe following day after returning from working on a customer's Maserati he was informed that an American lady had called wanting to buy the Bugatti. He called on her at her hotel on September 13th but was turned away by Desti as Isadora was sleeping and just left his calling card. The next time Falchetto visited the restaurant he found that she had left her number for him with the proprietor. Duncan was lunching with her friend Mary Desti and had nicknamed the handsome Benoit, 'Buggatti', mistaking the spelling and the Amilcar for one of Ettore's machines. They had spotted each other a few days earlier at a Restaurant called Tétu just down the coast from Nice in Port Juan, near Juan Les Pins. There are a number of different stories as to how this came about but it would appear that Benoit had a eye for the ladies. In 1927 he was working at the Helvetica Garage in Nice, France and first came to prominence that year when he took Isadora Duncan out for a drive on the Promenade des Anglais in his 1924 Amilcar Grand Sport. Though French, Benoit Falchetto was half Italian and flew for the Italians in WW1. It was in hîs Amilcar Grand Sport that Isadora Duncan met her end. &fromrow=1įalchetto raced mainly in France between 19 driving a Tony Speciale, Bugatti, Amilcar and latterly a Maserati 8CM. Here is the story, with Benoît Falchetto playing a key role in it: taken from. I don't know exactly who had the most responsability in solving this. One of the basic facts in that was the remark that the car had staggered seats (driver's seat a bit in front of the passenger's), which no GP Bugatti ever had. It seems that through a lot of comments on forums etc the myth was finally taken to truth. I don't know exactly who started the Isadora - Bugatti Myth, but it keeps being copied. Perhaps this can be dealt with in a new thread, going from pretty girls and Bugattis to dead people in Bugattis is just going to needlessly upset the heterosexuals. (Actually he didn't die in the accident, he died from pneumonia while recovering, but I think you know what I'm getting at) Ettore crashed the Royale, which was careless of him, but he was uninjured, so my rather macabre question is : Which famous people had the superb good taste of dying in a Bugatti? Must be road accidents, the death of a racer is sacred and much beyond mockery. Do you perhaps know who started the Bugatti myth, and who provided the Amilcar retort?įamous author Alber(t?) Camus died in a Facel Vega, and Jane Mansfield in an American car (An Oldsmobile?) Fred Duesenberg died in a Model J roadster by Murphy, which showed some style. I too heard the story of the unfortunate Ms Duncan's grizzly demise, first I read it was a Bugatti and then, from your site if I remember correctly, that it was an Amilcar.
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