She and her husband excavated the Ancient Persian city of Susa and made various discoveries some of which are displayed in the Louvre museum.

[2][3] Jane Dieulafoy was born Jeanne Henriette Magre to a wealthy family of bourgeoisie merchants in Toulouse, France.

[6] With the end of the war, Marcel was employed by the Midi railways, but during the next ten years the Dieulafoys would travel in Egypt and Morocco for archaeological and exploration work.

Marcel became increasingly interested in the relationship between Oriental and Western architecture, and in 1879, decided to devote himself to archaeology.

[8] The first journey was by freighter from Marseilles to Constantinople, by a Russian boat to Poti on the east coast of the Black Sea, and then across the Caucasus, and via Azerbaijan to Tabriz.

[10] The transfer of the found objects to France caused considerable damage to the findings of Iranian archaeological excavations.

Jane Dieulafoy says in her memoir about the Apadana Palace in Susa: Yesterday I watched the large stone bull found in recent days with great regret, weighing about twelve thousand pounds!

The head of the column is broken as a result of a sledgehammer struck like a ripe fruit... After their journeys in Iran, Dieulafoy and her husband spent time traveling in Spain and Morocco between 1888 and 1914.

The childless couple left their home at 12, rue Chardin in Paris to the French Red Cross who continue to operate an office from the building to this day.