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Jane Avril

1868 - 1943

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Avril is the 4,663rd most popular politician (up from 5,144th in 2019), the 1,353rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,567th in 2019) and the 330th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jane Avril ranks 4,663 out of 19,576Before her are Vladimir Kryuchkov, Juan Almeida Bosque, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Dušan Simović, and Suleiman of Persia. After her are Agrippa Postumus, Menua, Emperor Wu of Liang, Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, Jovan Vladimir, and Archduke Joseph August of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Jane Avril ranks 54Before her are Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Koloman Moser, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Gustav Noske, Paul P. Harris, and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. After her are Alfred Weber, Myrtle Corbin, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Paul Otlet, and Harvey S. Firestone. Among people deceased in 1943, Jane Avril ranks 42Before her are Oskar Schlemmer, André Antoine, Charley Paddock, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Nordahl Grieg, and Lydia Litvyak. After her are Franz Oppenheimer, Luz Long, Viktor Lutze, Akira Matsunaga, Pavel Milyukov, and Abdelaziz of Morocco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jane Avril ranks 1,353 out of 6,770Before her are Theobald II of Navarre (1239), Pierre Bouguer (1698), Michel Adanson (1727), Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678), Monique Wittig (1935), and Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580). After her are Pierre Louis Dulong (1785), Félix Savart (1791), Maine de Biran (1766), Pierre Lescot (1515), Maurice Duverger (1917), and Marie Laurencin (1883).

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