He still hopes, or rather he is not aware of his state because he writes:
“If you miss the money, borrow; when I am better, I will gain some easily and return to that which will have lent to you .....”
About her niece that he hopes to see, he adds:
“Which knows, if I will not bring back it when I am cured…” (in Poland).
Of another dimensioned, in the same letter he writes passages on his disease which prove the gravity of its state, but he announces it without concern: “there is something in my disease which exceeds science”
“I do not have a fever what diverts and annoys all the ordinary doctors”
It finishes its letter by these words:
“Your very attached, but quite weak brother. CH”
Her sister ran at once, with husband and girl. Miss to only Titus his/her friend of childhood. During six weeks there is no notable change, but the state of Chopin worsens little by little. He does not speak any more and is made include/understand by signs.
Three doctors examine it once again and conclude that the displacement envisaged in the South, to try to benefit from a favorable climate is from now on useless, and that it would be preferable to transport Chopin in a better heated housing. Housing was found with number 12 of the Vendôme Place.
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The young brother of one of his pupils makes him the reading. He reads especially Voltaire whose Chopin liked the form, the concision, and the safety of the taste.
Its state worsens quickly. It does not seem to be frightened by the idea to die. At the beginning of October it cannot be held any more sitted. It is more and more often choked.
Around Chopin failing the friends and the family gather. The abbot Jelowicki, a friend of childhood with which it was scrambled, wanted to see it when it learned his state.
One barred the door by three times to him, but Chopin finishes by the knowledge, and it accepted it immediately. From this day, it returned every day and Chopin was happy to re-examine this friend.
The abbot found it a little better on October 13, and seizing the occasion, he says:
“My friend, it is the festival of fire today my brother, it is necessary that you give me something for this day.
_ What can I give you? _ Your heart. _Ah! I understand, says Chopin, and well take it. “
The abbot knelt and tightened the crucifix with Chopin who started to cry.
He confessed himself, communia, and accepted the extreme unction.
He thanked his friend the abbot while saying:
“Thanks to you I will not burst as a pig”
Soon the crises of suffocation began again of more beautiful. They exhausted it completely; after one of them and a long silence, Chopin known as: “Now I enter in anguish”
On October 15, his friend Delphine Potocka arrived from Nice.
By learning it Chopin murmured:
” it is thus for that God was long so much in calling me, he still wanted to leave me the pleasure of seeing it. “
At the request of Chopin, she sang by twice, by choking her sobs. ;
It recommended to burn all its unfinished compositions:
“I do not want that under the responsibility of my name, it spreads works unworthy of the public”.
It bade its farewell, emitted some wishes.
A few moments before his death the doctor asked to him whether he suffered:
“ any ”
he answered.
It is its last word. A few minutes later it had died.
Moulding of the left hand of Chopin ( Auguste Clésinger ) .
It was on October 17, 1849 at 2 o'clock in the morning.
In the morning of the flowers were carried in great quantity. Auguste Clésinger moulded the face and the hand of Chopin, as it was habit to do it at the time, and one made several drawings of Chopin on his bed of death.
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