Auguste rodin biography resumo da novela

AUGUSTE RODIN - his life, his work (1)

12.11.1840

Auguste Rodin is born in Paris as the second child of Jean-Baptiste Rodin, an employee of the Préfecture de Police (later Inspector), 38 years old, and Marie Cheffer, 34 years old.

His sister Maria is two years older; they have an unusal close relationship.

1844

Rose Beuret is born in June.

18.8.1850

Day of the death of Honoré de Balzac.

1851-53

Auguste attends the boarding school of his uncle Alexandre Rodin in Beauvais.

He is shy and a poor student.

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Afterwards he remembered:

"I could not see the figures on the blackboard [...]. I have always been shortsighted. As a child I did not know what was the matter and I hated mathematics because I could not see."

1854-57

At the age of 14, he becomes a student at the former Petite École in the Quartier Latin, now named the École Impériale Spéciale de Dessin et de Mathématiques; in the class of Horace