Jean Genet
December 10, 1910 Birth of Jean Genet at the Tanier Childbirth Clinic in Paris to Camille Gabrielle Genet (age 22), who was a Parisian prostitute
July 28, 1911 Camille Genet abandons her son to an orphanage; Genet becomes a ward of the state and never see his mother again
July 30, 1911 Placed in the foster home of Eugénie and Charles Regnier, who raise Genet until he is thirteen, but he is placed in a nearby public school at the age of five
December 30, 1923 At the age of thirteen, Genet's legal status changes from foster child to "domestic servant" (E. White, Genet, xxii), and he is removed from school
April-December 1925 Genet undergoes psychiatric evaluation and "neuro-psychiatric treatment" (xxiii) after embezzling money from his guardian, René de Buxeuil
February 1926 Genet runs away from the Patronage, an Adolescent Organization, but is captured and returned to the home two days later
March 1926 Genet escapes again, and is turned over to the police who hold......
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