| 1860 |
born August 16 in Uruguay |
| 1866 |
moved to France with mother |
| 1867 |
mother returned to Uruguay and left
Jules with uncle and cousin in France |
| 1869 |
attended college of Tarbes |
| 1875 |
family remains in France
indefinitely |
| 1876 |
leaves college of Tarbes to move to
Paris with his family and study at college Fontanes |
| 1877 |
failed his high school
baccalaureate examination twice (therefore no diploma) and mother died
while bearing her 12th child |
| 1879 |
faileed his baccalaureate
examination a third time, managed to get a library card on second try and
met Charles Henry, Gustave Kahn, and Paul Bourget |
| 1880 |
attended Parisian literary circles
for the first time |
| 1881 |
appointed reader to the Empress
Augusta in Berlin and remained in Germany for almost five years (during
this time he did most of his work) |
| 1885 |
published
Les Complaintes |
| 1886 |
published "“The Imitation of
Our Lady the Moon” and married an English woman, Leah Lee, in London on
December 31 |
| 1887 |
died of tuberculosis August 20, age
27 |
| 1890 |
published Derniers Vers |
