| 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 |
