[8] This couple then settled in Mériel (Val-d'Oise): they were included in the 1906 census of this town where the spouse, named "Anne-Marie", is noted being out of work.

This date is confirmed on her death certificate in Paris in 1948[2] as well as in her file as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1936 where even her baptism, on the following December 25, is specified.

In 1890 she appeared at the Scala[a] where she created her greatest hit, Quand les lilas refleuriront (When the lilacs bloom again), written by Georges Auriol and Désiré Dihau.

A drawing by Albert Guillaume (1873–1942) published in Le Courrier français on 15 December 1895 depicted several performers at an unnamed revue at La Scala.

[14] An 1895 reviewer wrote that Anna Thibaud is the leading lady exponent of la chansonette among Paris artists at the Café Concert.

Thibaud has made a speciality of the songs of 1830, and sings them in a costume which, while avoiding the grotesque peculiarities of the fashion in vogue when Charles the Tenth was King, is sufficiently rococo to give a touch of local colour to the words which accompany the tunes once so familiar on the left bank of the Seine.

... Mdlle Thibaude possesses to a rare extent l'art de dire, she has a pretty voice, and every word of her song tells.

She also takes a special delight in the kind of songs she has made popular, and has taken great pains in each case to discover the original air.

During World War I, she was involved in the serving of soup kitchens and sang in hospitals in Paris and the surrounding area during the interval between performances she gave to the Armed Forces.

[12] In May 1932, describing an evening at the well-known goguette Lice chansonnière, Charles de Bussy wrote "In a halo of glory the beautiful artist Anna Thibaut, queen of the song, happy to have come here tonight, interpreting in her tender and spiritual voice Étoile d'amour, Ce qu'une femme n'oublie pas and Cinq heures du matin.