1872	4 January: Paul, the son of CŽzanne and Hortense Fiquet, is born at 45 rue de Jussieu, Paris. CŽzanne acknowledges his son.
	April: CŽzanne is refused by the Salon. He signs a petition to the Minister of Culture and Fine Arts demanding that a room for the RefusŽs be opened in the exhibition at the Salon de l’Industrie.
	August: CŽzanne joins Pissarro, who has settled at Pontoise, outside Paris. He later moves to the nearby village of Auvers-sur-Oise.

1873	CŽzanne spends the entire year with Hortense and their son at Auvers, walking to Pontoise every day to work beside Pissarro. At Auvers he, Pissarro and Guillaumin practise etching in Dr Gachet’s studio.

1874	Early in the year he returns to Paris.
	15 April to 15 May: Three of CŽzanne’s paintings are shown at the first Impressionist exhibition, including The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers-sur-Oise, which found an immediate buyer.

1875	December: Pre Tanguy sells three of CŽzanne’s paintings to Victor Chocquet, a customs official and collector of Delacroix and Renoir. (Until his death, Pre Tanguy remained the only dealer in Paris to stock CŽzanne’s works.)

1876	April: CŽzanne is in Aix and does not participate in the second Impressionist exhibition. He is refused by the Salon. From this time he works regularly at L’Estaque (now a suburb of Marseilles).

1877	CŽzanne spends much of the year in Paris.
	14–30 April: He exhibits sixteen work in the third Impressionist exhibition. He makes regular visits to the CafŽ de la Nouvelle-Athnes and attends Nina de Villars’s soirŽes, after having been introduced to her by Cabaner, the musician, or by Paul Alexis.