1868
Jane Avril, French model and dancer (died 1943)
Jane Avril, French model and dancer (died 1943)
Jane Avril, French model and dancer (died 1943)
Jane Avril
French can-can dancer (1868–1943)
- Born
- 1868
Jane Avril 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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