Timeline |
1840 |
Born 12 December |
1851 |
Attends uncle's boarding school in Beauvais |
1852 |
Briefly joins a Catholic order |
1857 |
Attends La Petite École |
1858 |
Works commercially in the decorative arts |
1864 |
Rejected (first of three times) by the Salon |
1866 |
Son born to Rodin and his lifelong mistress Rose Beuret (he marries her in 1917, three weeks before her death) |
1870 |
Franco-Prussian war, drafted into the National Guard (discharged due to his nearsightedness) |
1871 |
Spends 7 years in Belgium |
1877 |
Returns to Paris, The Age of Bronze exhibited at the Salon |
1879 |
Begins work at the Manufacture de Sèvres |
1881 |
Visits England |
1887 |
Appointed Knight of the Légion d'Honneur |
1889 |
Founding member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts |
1892 |
Promoted Officer of the Légion d'Honneur |
1893 |
Appointed president of the sculpture section of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts |
1900 |
Appointed Knight of the Order of Leopold of Belgium |
1903 |
Appointed Commander of the Légion d'Honneur |
1917 |
Dies 17 November |