1866	April: Despite the intervention of Daubigny, CŽzanne is refused by the Salon jury.
	19 April: CŽzanne sends a letter of protest to H. de Nieuwerkerke, the superintendent of Fine Arts, demanding the reinstatement of the Salon des RefusŽs.
	27 April to 20 May: Writing under the pseudonym Claude, Zola publishes seven articles about the Salon in L’EvŽnement.
	May to early August: CŽzanne makes several visits to Bennecourt (Oise) together with Zola, Chaillan, Baille and Valabrgue. He occasionally visited the CafŽ Guerbois, where Manet and his friends used to meet.

1867	April: Two of CŽzanne’s paintings, The Wine Grog and Intoxication, are turned down by the Salon jury.
	Early June: CŽzanne returns to Aix after spending part of the winter and spring in Paris.

1868	April: His work is rejected by the Salon jury.
	May to December: He works in the south of France.

1869	Early in the year he meets Hortense Fiquet, a model or dress-maker from the Jura and eleven years his junior. She becomes his companion.

1870	31 May: CŽzanne is a witness at the marriage of Zola and Alexandrine Meley at Paris. Following the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (19 July), he and Hortense Fiquet take refuge in L’Estaque for a year.
	4 September: The Republic is proclaimed following the defeat at SŽdan (2 September) and the capitulation of Napoleon III.
	18 November: While at L’Estaque, CŽzanne is elected chairman of the committee of the School of Drawing, but he did not attend meetings. The committee is dissolved on 19 April 1871.