1872 4 January: Paul, the son of C┼╜zanne and Hortense Fiquet, is born at 45 rue de Jussieu, Paris. C┼╜zanne acknowledges his son.
April: C┼╜zanne is refused by the Salon. He signs a petition to the Minister of Culture and Fine Arts demanding that a room for the Refus┼╜s be opened in the exhibition at the Salon de lΓÇÖIndustrie.
August: C┼╜zanne joins Pissarro, who has settled at Pontoise, outside Paris. He later moves to the nearby village of Auvers-sur-Oise.
1873 C┼╜zanne 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 GachetΓÇÖs studio.
1874 Early in the year he returns to Paris.
15 April to 15 May: Three of C┼╜zanneΓÇÖs 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: C┼╜zanne 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 LΓÇÖEstaque (now a suburb of Marseilles).
1877 C┼╜zanne 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.
