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ProvenÇal Chronology of CÉzanne: 1850–1859
- 1850–1852
- After attending the public school in his neighborhood, Cézanne is registered
for two years at the Catholic school of Saint-Joseph,
where he befriends Henri
Gasquet.
- 1852
- Cézanne enters the College Bourbon. An excellent student, he wins many prizes. He befriends Émile
Zola, one year his junior, who entered the school the same
year as he; and Jean-Baptiste "Baptistin" Baille,
future astronomer and
professor at the École Polytechnique. They are known
collectively as "les trois inseparables" (the
three inseparables). Another friend and classmate is Louis
Marguery, future lawyer and writer
for vaudeville.
- 1854
- June 1
- Birth of Rose Honorine Cézanne,
the third and last
child of Louis-Auguste Cézanne and
his wife.
- 1857
- Cézanne registers at the École Gratuite de Dessin
[free drawing school] of Aix, in the Priory of Malta, which
also houses the affiliated museum. Joseph Gibert, both director
of the school and curator of the museum, is his teacher from
1858 to 1861. Cézanne takes classes in which he draws
after the live model as well as after ancient sculpture in
the form of plaster casts and
the marble originals in the museum
collection.
- 1858
- February
- Émile Zola, accompanied by his grandfather, leaves
Aix and moves in with his mother,
in Paris. He maintains a correspondence with his friends in
the Midi. Cézanne’s letters to Zola are filled
with poems, rhymes, and songs. Zola returns to Aix for
two consecutive
summers.
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- November 12
- After failing in his first attempt to qualify for his General
Certificate of Education on August 4, Cézanne passes
with the mark "rather good."
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- December
- His father obliges him to study law at the law school in
Aix, where he registers on December 16. He asks Zola to obtain
information about entry to the École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts)
in Paris.
- 1859
- January 19
- Cézanne registers for his second session at the law
school in Aix.
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- April 11
- Third registration at the law school
in Aix.
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- July 7
- Fourth registration at the law school
in Aix.
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- August 25
- Cézanne is awarded the second prize for painting at
the drawing school in Aix, in the form of a leather-bound
drawing album. Students’ works are
exhibited in the "large classroom" for assessment
by a jury. Cézanne submitted a "life-size study
of a head after the live model painted in oil."
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- September 15
- Louis-Auguste Cézanne acquires a country property
known as the Jas de Bouffan, consisting of approximately
thirty-seven acres for the
sum of 85,000 francs. He moves in around 1870.
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- November 19
- Cézanne registers for his fifth session at the law school
in Aix.
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- November 28
- He passes his first examination for
the bachelor's degree. Another year and another examination
are necessary
to obtain a license.
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