Short answers, pulled from the story.
François Auguste René Rodin was born on the 12th of November 1840 into a working-class family in Paris. His father Jean-Baptiste Rodin worked as a police department clerk while his mother Marie Cheffer managed their household.
A commission to create a portal for Paris' planned Museum of Decorative Arts was awarded to Auguste Rodin in 1880. Although the museum was never built, Rodin worked throughout his life on The Gates of Hell which comprised 186 figures in its final form.
Critics alleged that Auguste Rodin had taken a cast from a living model because the statue looked so naturalistic. He vigorously denied the charges writing to newspapers and having photographs taken of the model to prove how the sculpture differed before being exonerated by a committee of sculptors.
Auguste Rodin began to live with Rose Beuret in 1864 and they stayed together for the rest of his life though commitment varied. In 1883 he met the 18-year-old Camille Claudel and the two formed a passionate but stormy relationship until the late 1880s.
The Musée Rodin was founded in 1916 and opened in 1919 at the Hôtel Biron where Auguste Rodin had lived. It holds more than 6,000 sculptures and 7,000 works on paper.