Timeline - Key events in French history which were to take place during the life and times of Jane Avril.

1853: Haussman redesigns Paris

1854: Bourseul in France builds an experimental telephone

1868: Jane Avril is born (Jun. 9, 1868)

1870-71: Franco-Prussian War

1871: Third Republic

1885: Louis Pasteur discovers rabies vaccine

1889: Eiffel Tower constructed during the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in order to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution

1891: First metro station opens

1895: Lumière brothers build a portable movie camera

1895: Paris audience sees movies projected. (leaving the Lumiere Factories - Dec. 28, 1895)

1898-1906: The Dreyfus Affair - anti semitic French army

1900: Paris Exhibition

1900 - Oscar Wilde dies in Paris

1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dies

1905: Charles Pathé colours black and white films by machine

1907: Lumière brothers invent still colour photography process

1909: Blériot flies across the English Channel

1911: Diaghilev brings the Russian ballet to Paris

1914-1918: World War 1

1917 - Téodor de Wyzewa dies in Paris

1919: Versailles Treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors

1920: Interment of the Unknown Soldier

1924: The Olympic Games held in Paris

1929-1939: The Depression

1939: France declares war on Germany

1940: Paris falls, Vichy's government formed

1943: Jane Avril dies (Jan. 16, 1943)

1944-45: D-Day and Allied Victory and Fourth Republic led by Charles de Gaulle - Jane Avril never lived to see Paris liberated