using the chronology package with babel french option

Question

I'm trying to use the chronology package and it works fine with the english option in the babel package but if I use

\usepackage[french]{babel}

It doesn't work anymore. I've found a solution (that I don't understand) on a french forum. It says I can use

\usepackage[babel=true,kerning=true]{microtype}

It works fine with a simple example like this :

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\usepackage{chronology}
\usepackage[babel=true,kerning=true]{microtype}

\begin{document}
\chapter*{Introduction}
\begin{chronology}[5]{1983}{2010}{10cm}[7cm]
\event{1984}{\color{blue}{one}}
\event[1985]{1986}{\small{two}}
\event{\decimaldate{25}{12}{2001}}{\huge{three}}
\end{chronology}
\end{document}

Yet my text throw an exception :

! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalablefonts.\AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox\fi \fi \chapter

on this line :

\chapter{Environnement de travail}

I'm fairly new to Latex and I guess that a encoding problem with the font but I have no idea about the solution.

EDIT :

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{chronology}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage[babel=true,kerning=true]{microtype}
\title{test}

\begin{document}
\chapter{L'environnement de travail}
\section{Le groupe}
\subsection{Historique}

\vspace{1cm}
\begin{chronology}[5]{1964}{2012}{20cm}[10cm]
\event{1864}{Création}
\end{chronology}
\vspace{1cm}

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\end{document}

This doesn't work. But if I delete the lorem ipsum It works fine.

Answer 1

Install the cm-super package (large).

If this doesn't help: remove microtype (to be able to see in the log file the fonts used), compile with pdflatex and show the end of the log-file (where all the fonts are listed).