Jane Avril was a French dancer, born in 1868 in 20th arrondissement of Paris, who died in 1943.
Biography
Jane Avril (9 June 1868 – 17 January 1943) was a French can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and a frequent subject of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's art. Extremely thin and "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive.
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Contemporaries
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