1866 April: Despite the intervention of Daubigny, C┼╜zanne is refused by the Salon jury.
19 April: C┼╜zanne sends a letter of protest to H. de Nieuwerkerke, the superintendent of Fine Arts, demanding the reinstatement of the Salon des Refus┼╜s.
27 April to 20 May: Writing under the pseudonym Claude, Zola publishes seven articles about the Salon in LΓÇÖEv┼╜nement.
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 C┼╜zanneΓÇÖs paintings, The Wine Grog and Intoxication, are turned down by the Salon jury.
Early June: C┼╜zanne 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: C┼╜zanne 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 LΓÇÖEstaque for a year.
4 September: The Republic is proclaimed following the defeat at S┼╜dan (2 September) and the capitulation of Napoleon III.
18 November: While at LΓÇÖEstaque, C┼╜zanne 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.
