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24 November 1864 |
In the night, Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born, the son of 2 noble families. The place where he was born is the 'Hotel du Bosc' in Albi, the country house of the family. The house has the same name as the castle of the family by the river Viaur, about 50 km from Albi. The first name Henri was given as a tribute to the pretender to the throne of France. The noble titles of the family date from about 750, in the time of Karel the great. The oldest forefather that had distinguished himself was Fridelon, who protected the town Toulouse against Karel the bad. Raymond de Toulouse, on of the knights of the crusade (1099), was duke of Narbonne and marquis of Provence.
The father of Henri, count Alphonse-Charles, was known for his love to hunt, horse riding and paintings of horses. Henri's mother is Adèle-Marquette Tapié de Céleyran, cousin of her husband.
A week after his birth, Henri was taken to the castle; Chateau du Bosc, in the valley of Viaur |
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28 August 1867 |
Henri's brother, Richard was born. Henri, who could write at that moment, wanted to sign the birth register with a cow. |
27 August 1868 |
The parents of Henri divorce, after their son Richard passed away at Loury-en-Sologne. Henri passes his childhood with his mother in the chateau du Bosc and the Chateau de Céleyran. He learns to ride a horse and studies Greek and Latin. |
1872 |
After the war of 1870 and the uprising of the Commune, Henri's family moves to Paris. Henri lives successively in the hotel Pérey, on the rue Boissy d'Anglas, and in Neuilly. |
1 October 1872 |
Henri registers himself at the Lycée Fontanes (now Lycée Concordet) In the school year 1873-1874, Henri becomes one of the best students and wins different prices. The next school year, Henri's work goes down. His friends in school call him 'P'tit bonhomme' (the little guy) because he stayed so little. Henri's best schoolfriends were Louis Pascal and Maurice Joyant. The last one will become his best friend. Henri draws in all his schoolbooks. |
1874 |
Henri is very weak and returns to his mother in Albi. He continues his study at home. To make him more strong, they decided to sent him to a health resort, Amélies-les-Bains. |
1878 |
Henri writes the story 'The history of the Pelican and the eel', for the magazine 'L'echo français'. His nephew Louis Paul and his friend Portalis were started with this magazine. |
30 May 1878 |
Henri brakes his left thighbone. He stays in beth for quite a long time and goes back to the health resort, Amélies-les-Bains. |
August 1879 |
During a walkwith his mother, Henri falls and brakes his thighbone again. This time his right one. Henri has very weak bones. He looks like a deformed dwarf. Henri will never get his health totaly back and his leggs will always be very vulnerable. |
July 1881 |
Henri does his examination, but he fails. He stays the rest of the summer in Nice. Thereafter he stays in Lamalou-les-Bains, Céleyran and on the Chateau du Bosc. He illustrates the book, Cocotte (Museum de Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi), of his friend Etienne Devisme, whom he met in 1879. |
November 1881 |
InToulouse, Henri passes his examination. He goes to Paris and shows his first paintings to René Princeteau, a friend of his father. |
1882 |
After the winter in Albi and Céleyran, Henri goes back to Paris in March. He begins to work in the studio of Princeteau. (Faubourg-Saint-Honoré) Nearby, lots of painters have their home. Like the Irish animal painter John Lewis Brown, who becomes his friend. On advice of Princeteau and Henri Rachou, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec goes at the end of March to the studio of Léon Bonnat. Bonnat advices Toulouse-Lautrec to concentrate seriously on his paintings and scetches. At the end of that year, Bonnat closes his studio. This was a big shock for Toulouse-Lautrec. He hoped to go to the academy, after he worked long enough with Bonnat. |
1883 |
With a group of other disciples from Bonnat, Toulouse-Lautrec joined a group of artists that was lead by Fernand Cormon. Henri became friends with Anquetin, Laval, Gauzi, Fauché, Grenier and Bernard. Emile Bernard takes him to the paint and art-store of Père Tanguy, where he sees the paintings of Paul Cezanne. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec meats Marie Charlet, who became his first mistress. She helps him forget his cousin Jeanne d'Armagnac. |
1884 |
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